HELEN SANDERS
6-24-2026
SIMPLIFY

It is hard to imagine growing up without cell phones, internet, Alexis, Siri, AI, television, computers, smartphones, digital cameras, and Wi-Fi. The information highway is at our fingertips. We don’t need encyclopedias; we just ask Siri or Alexis to get our answers.

The day of sending things by mail seems like a dinosaur to many. It is just too slow. We want instant messaging and correspondence by email.

Today there was a major outage with our internet provider. The internet was down for many hours. Our ministry publishes a newsletter five days a week, and we depend on the internet to be able to deliver our messages.

With the internet down, I could not use our Wi-Fi printer to prepare for our ministry school. Yes, it was on the computer, but I could not get a hard copy. I considered cancelling this weeks’ school because of this. Then, after the better part of the day, the internet issue was fixed, and it came back up.

What would happen if we decided to live a simpler life? Are we so used to instant everything that we don’t know how to live without all the “modern” conveniences?

Several years ago the Lord gave me a vision of a spider web. It was capturing those that got too close to it. First, it was a person, then their car, their home, and ultimately the world was trapped in that web. (Click here to watch the video made about the web.)

I believe that vision is exactly what we are now living out. We are “trapped” in the web and the electronics that brought us there for instant gratification. Now, don’t get me wrong. I like all the conveniences, but how will we live if things spiral out of control and we have depended upon it for most everything? Most of us would be totally at a standstill.

Maybe we ought to step back and evaluate that question before it happens. We need to prepare to live without the conveniences that the spider web brings. We need to live simpler lives, and learn how to communicate face to face once again. I think the world would be a better place.

By the way, the internet came up and we plan to still have our ministry school which depends upon that spider web.