Every morning is a new opportunity to see new mercies and rediscover God's great faithfulness. In the morning after I read my devotions I am so thankful and ready to go conquer my world. Then little things seep in all day long and by the end of the day I am ready to crawl into a cup of hot chocolate and a muffin or brownie or fresh baked cookie; get a few pillows to stuff behind my back, a nice warm, fleecy cover and curl into the corner section of the couch. Then I make the mistake of turning on the 10:00 p.m. news...for the first 15 minutes all they can talk about are all the people who have murdered each other that day. Last night was a story of a quadruple shooting not too far from here - in fact it is a few blocks from where we used to live. The four 'friends' (I use the term lightly because would you really shoot at a friend?) got into a verbal fight and all four pulled out guns and started shooting.
Where did we go wrong? Is it society, parents, schools, churches...who dropped the ball? How much does media have an effect on us? Do we see and hear the wrong things so much that we become desensitized to it all? Did you know that the television programs we watch BEFORE 9:00 p.m. now want to be allowed to use any word they choose. Right now certain words still get bleeped and they feel like they can't make their point without the really heavy cusswords.
My challenge to myself is to stop saying cuss words entirely. This last year for Lent I tried to give up the bad words without replacing them with silly words. When I get super upset I still let loose with a few choice words. But after reading that article about the television programs I realized that I can give them up completely. If everyone on television is going to be letting loose with degrading words all evening it will be easy for me to have the cable turned off...and we all know what that means...I can't watch television at all because antennaes won't work anymore.
If you want to read about this article and others, go to http://www.parentstv.org/.
Ok, back to my warm and positive thoughts lasting all day. Perhaps I need a boost in the afternoon and another in the evening...kinda like a Dr. Pepper for my mind...ah-h-h-h...now I LIKE that thought. I usually eat lunch while I am working. I need to read something quick and inspirational with my lunch and then perhaps BEFORE I watch the evening news...or afterwards to finish my day with something positive on my mind rather than what a mess our society has turned into. Would anyone watch if there was a news program devoted only to the great things going on...would we be able to find enough 'good news' every day?
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