My Week Away from TV... Journal 5

Growing up, the TV in my house was always on. It was a central part of my childhood for better or worse. I can remember what time the Muppets were on, and how my life stood still for that half hour. I really have never had cable, so over time the appeal of TV has lessen. I now really only have it in the morning as I listen to the news before work. However, I think I’d watch more if I had the time. That being said, this past week I have been staying with a friend who doesn’t have a TV and I have really enjoyed it—I wonder if when I return if I will be able to go without TV with it sitting in almost every room in our house.

This is one of those areas I am not sure if God speaks to me through. I think He does. Like I said, I watch a lot of news and I think this medium helps to show things I need to see. It exposes me to world around me, and really helps me to see mankind’s struggle and how I should pray. Occasionally a TV show will move me, but really I currently don’t get to watch that much. I think it is interesting to see where TV is going. It seems to create the trends that society follows. It is a medium that is accessible to most people, regardless of where one's place is in the world. Almost every hotel I have stayed in the world, whether in Asia or Europe or here in America, has had some sort of TV. Almost all showing some form of the BBC too.

This is another area in which I am not sure how God is communicating to me with. I think I am gaining so much more from my time away from TV, that it’s hard at this very moment to think that there is something to learn from it. But right now I really am not able to see it--I know there is something hidden within that appliance but its just that, hidden, or at least for the time being.