As I tutored one day, my student and I discussed the real world ahead.
AI and robotic integration threaten many jobs in society over the next five to fifty years. As seniors who guide our society's future, we must support teenagers' human spark of creativity. We must continue using our strengths to innovate and evolve our thoughts while hoping these young people can develop their creative approaches.
As Christians, we believe God is the Creator. John's wise words of counsel guide us to appreciate God's progress and guidance.
We can regard ourselves as a thinking species, constantly inventing something new. We can also develop our role as custodians of the world with all its inhabitants and creatures. There are no perfect solutions for climate change or to prevent the extinction of other species and plants. But God, the Creator, made these too.
Even in modern times, we can foster our human gifts and keep on creating that human touch. We can guide society's future to learn the benefits of God's diversity and His great gifts of creation, including our human natures. God does not want anyone to give up the ghost.
Trust in God's path ahead. He created and controls everything.
Julie Grenness is a former teacher and catechist who is now a writer of many online articles, mainly for baby boomers. She is also a caregiver for a geriatric and a part-time tutor and mentor of young Australians from many lands. She aims to be a woman of God and to walk humbly in the path of Jesus.