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Monday, February 06, 2006


Kill your Television

A friend of mine has a bumper sticker that says this. I have begun to entertain the sentiment. With recent serious surgery and slow recovery, I've submerged myself in low energy activities, one of which is TV. At the same time, we switched from Comcast to DirectTV to save the $20 per month. So, there I was. Stuck on the tube. It is dawning on me that the time of my video fascination is over. I once ate so much peanut butter one summer that I could no longer stomach the stuff. I'm dangerously close to the same tipping point on TV.

As an unwanted side effect of watching TV, I have blotted out my quiet life and my prayer. Even while I watched G. K. Chesterton or a mass from the Holy Land, my awareness was lost in the experience. There was no reaching out to God, no searching for connection. I just drooled my way from one day to the next.

I'm swearing off, with the exception of one hour Monday night to watch 24. Support me in my fast, please.

posted by Unknown @ 6:11 AM  

4 Comments:

  • At 9:55 AM, February 08, 2006, Blogger fatherneo said…

    So you're the one with the true peanut butter addiction--I see!

    TV is amazingly difficult to watch with wee ones. We can hardly watch one show without some extremely violent commercial with dead bodies flashing on the screen. I missed most of the blasted Super Bowl commercials because we were trying to shield the little ones. Feel supported. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

     

  • At 4:31 PM, February 12, 2006, Blogger jazztheo said…

    I'm with you brother...we just moved our tv to a low traffic area of the house and disconnected the cable from it. Something amazing has happened we have discovered the joy of being with each other! Games, walks...sitting by the fire place and just being...

     

  • At 1:43 PM, February 17, 2006, Blogger Dan Trabue said…

    Cill yer TV! Cill yer TV! C-I-L-L yer TV!!

    I'm with ya on this one, K. You get the shakes, you can call me.

    Good to hear from you here.

     

  • At 1:44 PM, February 17, 2006, Blogger Dan Trabue said…

    [I'll retain my Peanut Butter habit, though - thanks. What God has laid before us, let us eat with joy.]

     

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