Reading: Genesis 34-35, Psalm 15, Matthew 6:16-24, Acts 9:1-14

Recall:
Matthew 6:22-23
"The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!"
Reflect:
This passage from Matthew is powerful. If this Christianity thing is real, if it work, then at some point one must engage it. Of course, one...heck, I...will never find out if it really works until I engage it.

The reason for my ramblings I guess is this--these words of Jesus are calling me to Christianity 201. When do I stop letting the garbage in? When do I stop making excuses, shore up my spiritual life and get serious about it?

I can tell myself that it is OK to watch a little TV. I need to relax don't I? And c'mon--I can't really help it if I happen to glance (stare?) at the young woman's rear end as she passes by me in Starbucks, can I?

It's not always a matter of right and wrong and good and bad. What is it allowing into my life? How is it affecting my spiritual journey? It certainly isn't producing light!

Respond:
One specific response for now--no more TV--I'll sit with Emerson and watch a show or movie, but for me, no more television.