\u201cWe may be a global village, but instant communication often isolates us from each other, rather than uniting us.\u201d \u00a0L\u2019Engle <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Tim and I have been texting each other all morning. He\u2019s at home. I\u2019m in Bend. The text go like this:<\/p>\n Him: \u00a0Clean sweep. Our next boy will be named Boston Rob.<\/p>\n Me: Natalie is a 19-year-old moron.<\/p>\n Him: She made it to the Final 3. Touche!<\/p>\n Me: She was as a sycophant.<\/p>\n Him: She\u2019s only 19, what else was she going to do? Of course she was.<\/p>\n Me: I wasn\u2019t like that at 19 and neither were ur daughters.<\/p>\n Him: And u would have been booted off the island.<\/p>\n #<\/p>\n For all the uninitiated, Tim and I are arguing by text over the last television episode of Survivors Island. <\/strong><\/p>\n Boston Rob took home the million dollars after his 4th go at the money. In order to do that he had to outwit all the other teammates \u2014 not a difficult job with this bunch, thus my references to 19-year-old Natalie, who was as googly-eyed over the married Rob as any girl I\u2019ve ever witnessed.<\/p>\n Yes, I know it\u2019s only a reality TV, but as far as reality TV goes, it\u2019s pretty good fare.<\/p>\n In fact, there were some powerful lessons in it this year.<\/p>\n Matt, the kid from Nashville who spent 27 days on Redemption Island by himself, spoke about the emotional difficulty of life alone: \u201cEverything was a chore. Cooking the rice. Washing the pans. Everything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n God, he said, sustained him.<\/p>\n