Our bodies, even our thumbs, matter.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stomstreet with a point.

In Scientific American, physician Carolyn Barber describes a new condition,

texting thumb. The patient's right thumb knuckle is inflamed, swollen, and often painful,

especially toward the end of the day, she describes.

The middle finger intermittently has a new catch to it when bent.

Now, the patient she's describing herself, an emergency room physician,

Barbara began working more on her phone. At the same time, she started to see an increased

toll on people's musco-skeletal systems from phone usage. Let's face it, Barbara concludes,

our hands weren't made for this. But digital technology is a necessary part of life, but it also

plays into what some have called the Gnostic Impulse,

that ancient temptation to ignore our bodies for our incorporeal cells.

It's an impulse alive and well today.

But of course, we're not just spirits.

God created our bodies.

They matter.

He cares for them.

That makes Barber's recommendation a good one.

Take a walk.

Pocket your phone.

Give tweeting digits the

break they deserve. I'm John Stone Street.

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