Bountiful
Blessings
May 19,
2013
This week
is scary. Totally nightmarish. Super duper, sleep with the lights on scary. I
am going to take you on a journey… through my head. Yes, Im sorry. Terrifying,
isn’t it?
Ok, so I
have this favorite tv show. Love it. I know that it is fiction. I do not
believe the subject matter to be based on truth. I watch it for entertainment.
I don’t (usually) have deep philosophical thought about it. I watch it. I enjoy
it. I move on. Then new subject matter was introduced. Just slightly off at
first but then it started wavering into that gray area. Made me a little
uncomfortable. Started thinking about it more. Started getting a little queasy
feeling.
Now I
admit that I am still watching it. Guilty as charged. Just uncomfortable and
trying to rationalize my continued viewing. So then my brain went to past
events in history and people watching for “entertainment”. What about the
coliseums and gladiators? What about the Salem witch trials? What about the
people gathered around Jesus as he was tortured and beaten? Then those same
people who followed him in his beaten state while he carried a cross to his
imminent death? As we think about it, we are horrified. How could anyone watch
something like that? I could not stand there and watch his pain, watch his
death. People even brought their children?? To watch people burn, to watch
animals gore swordsmen, to watch a man being struck over and over as his blood
ran red in the streets. How? What kind of people were they? Were they monsters?
Did they have no compassion? No morals? How could anyone get entertainment from
blood, violence, torture and death? What??!! Uh oh.
We (or
maybe just me) think that it is different. That is real people. My
entertainment is fiction. It is not real. It is not happening. It’s tv. It’s a
movie. It’s a video game. No one is really hurting. No one was harmed in the
making of my …. Just actors and actresses. But is it really that different? I
mean, yes, it is different. But at the same time, it still does not justify it.
I attempt to rationalize, to justify. That is to make me feel better about
doing what I feel is wrong. I know. I know. Sigh. Does this mean I am going to
have to give up my show?
We have
completed the journey. No more cruising through Terri’s brain today. And look…
we survived… with no blood, violence, torture or death. But I cannot say much
for entertainment value. J
Bible verse for the week:
“For if
God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and
committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;” 2 Peter 2:4
Picture for the week:
Bible fun for the week:
1. And we said until him, we are true
men; we are no s-------- (Gen 42:31)
2. And he measured the breadth of the
e------ of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate… (Ezek 40:11)
3. He that is unmarried c------ for
the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord (1 Cor 7:32)
4. B----- , thy servants are ready to
do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint (2 Sam 15:15)
5. …. That they should bring them in
and out by ------- (1 Chron 9:28)
6. T------ saith unto him, Lord, we
know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? (John 14:5)
7. … and ------ his brother, casting a
net into the sea… (Matt 4:18)
8. And they said unto her, Thou art
----- (Acts 12:15)
9. First OT book
10. Book before Luke
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