Only spend as much time watching TV as you spend praying.
Crazy.
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Never gonna happen?
Tag: TV
Filled With
Torment. Pain. Weight. Pressure.
This is what addiction can feel like.
It’s impossible to comprehend, unless you’ve been called out, voluntarily or, involuntarily.
Sitting here at the Orlando International Airport, listening to the TV broadcast a documentary on alcoholism.
Listening to the personal stories, each one different, each one the same.
Does someone you care deeply for have an addiction?
Do you?
The answer to the second question is always no, isn’t it?
If only it were true.
Couldn’t Do It
Couldn’t watch TV yesterday.
This isn’t a stretch for me because I rarely watch it anyway.
But I hear about it on Facebook, Twitter and emails.
And it comes as no surprise. Humanity always wants to help during disasters.
Haiti.
Devastation. Suffering.
Faith. Hope.
What good does God do when disaster happens?
You have an answer, right?
Paradox
The joy of having two Guest bloggers this week pales in comparison to the pain of the Haiti earthquake victims.
Last night, after my son and I walked Carter, we hurriedly returned to our house.
Told our son we needed to watch the evening news at 6:30PM.
Our lifestyle doesn’t make much time to watch TV. And this week has been exceptionally busy (see today’s Lane 8 challenge).
We watched Diane Sawyer on ABC Evening news describe the tragedy in Haiti. I wanted our son to understand the magnitude.
Yes, he’s only nine. But he’s smart. He’s compassionate. He has a caring heart.
It’s my sacred responsibility to teach him Life’s Big Four.
And it was the day prior to yesterday that he became my first Guest Blogger.
Paradox?
President Obama Sobriety
Rarely watching TV, I was captivated the other night when Charlie Gibson was interviewing United States President, Barack Obama, on the ABC Evening News.
The one word that really made me put things into perspective, was a word the President Obama used to describe how the decision to send US troops to Afghanistan was different from other critical US policy decisions.
Sobriety.
President Obama spoke of a certain level of sobriety that was needed on that particular decision. He said it was the one decision that was different from all the others. I paraphrase here, to illustrate the magnitude:
“Bailing out the auto industry or the financial system is one thing. But picturing Arlington Cemetery, with a mother, sitting in the rain, in front of a tombstone…..”