Truth, Lies & Picket Fences

A picture can a beautiful thing when properly focused and developed.  If however the image is out of focus or over exposed, then the image becomes distorted and may look nothing like what it was supposed to.  As a Christian, the picture is pretty clear.  God has painted an amazing picture, brush stroke by brush stroke.  An amazing picture of beauty, love and grace.  He gave us an instruction manual for life it's called the Bible, it is the living Word of GOD.

He shed light on the darkness, chasing away any gray areas, so the we could have a beautifully clear picture.  It's light shine in the darkness exposing evil for what is truly is and how ugly it really can be.  The living water that springs forth form it's pages refresh us and has the power to wash away the grime that distorts our view of what is real.

Movies that I watched years ago and thought I enjoyed, thought were funny, had a good story line where exciting, so many of these I now see without the distorted world view.  I can not believe what I am seeing.  So many of these shows teach disrespect, disobedience, they demean, desensitize and delight in not the  health and well being of our families and society, but instead in tearing down and indeed shredding all that has made us strong. 

While a lazy inconsiderate father sits on the couch eyes glazed over, the children learn to manipulate and make excuse from a more than slightly trashy mother.  In just a few years we have gone from that (as it that were not bad enough), to soap operas, that a few short years ago would have gotten an "R" rating at the box office.


More and more our youngest, most vulnerable children are being spoon fed, not baby food or formula, but instead a formula for disaster.  Even shows made for children and family movies are being filled with less than subtle hint of mayhem, magic and malicious behavior.  This teaches our precious children that the bad guys are the one to cheer for, that magic and the dark arts are fun and games and can be used good to fulfill their wants and desires.  Even something as basic as respect is unimportant, and in fact undesirable and uncool.  In doing so are we not teaching our children that left is right and right is left, have we not blurred the picture almost beyond recognition.  Then we wonder why our marriages, families and indeed even society seems to be falling apart.  Is it no small wonder that no one is willing to take responsibility; when everything we see and hear teach us that it is all someone elses fault.  One thing that I have heard on TV that has some semblance of responsibility is that "you just need to own up to it".  We need to teach be example, "owning it" taking responsibility for our actions and their consequences is just something that we need to do.