We receive three television stations here in Madison; NBC, Weather Central and the Justice Network. If the weather is bad between here and Atlanta, we get no tv reception and sometimes even if the weather is good, the stations don't come in very well. When one station goes, they all go. The Weather Central station is good for getting the overall national picture, but when you've seen it more than once, you've seen it enough and The Justice Station is a lot of cops and robbers stuff which gets pretty tough to watch when you see all the nasty things going on in the country.
NBC is okay, but it can get tedious to see their line-up of shows. They have a lot of police-type shows, Dateline stories about crimes, three shows about fire, police and medical disasters in Chicago, soccer, The Voice, Lester Holt (who we like), Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, a host of off-beat and offensive ethnic-oriented comedies and infomercials on a host of medical issues and "buy my brand diamond" or vacuum cleaner or other product. It's hard to find real wholesome entertainment on our tv selections. Even the specials were questionable; The Wiz and it's second showing, "How Murray Saved Christmas" and it's second showing were kid oriented with a lot of adult "humor" thrown in. We did enjoy It's a Wonderful Life a few weeks ago. Always enjoy Jimmy Stewart.
With only a weekly newspaper, the on and off tv and no desire to read the news on a small cell phone screen, it's hard to stay informed on the events in the world, but I've becoming accustomed to being uninformed. When we hear people talk about something, we Google-it and that seems to be enough. We're pretty well settled on who we don't want to be President, so we can do without all the debates, the soon-to-come negative ads and the wild boasts, claims and accusations of the political process.
Our work here in Madison and at the Passion Play give us a good idea of what God has called us to do, the importance of an eternal perspective over the temporal one and our desire to live as holy, righteous and non-hypocritical a life as we can. As always, we seek God's will for our life and press on toward the "prize". If we stay informed with God and keep close to Him...........that will be enough.........that will be sufficient.
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