Today's message -- THE DAY THE TV BROKE
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THE DAY THE TV BROKE
Tracy Smith quipped, "I wanted to make it really special on
Valentine's Day, so I tied my boyfriend up. And for three solid hours
I watched whatever I wanted on TV." Of course we laugh, but do you
know that one of the major sources of friction identified by couples
is conflict over which television channels to watch?
For years now, watching television has become our universal pastime.
We wake up to TV, hurry home so as not to miss our special programs,
eat meals around the set and go to bed after our favorite nightly news
or comedy show. Television is the babysitter of choice of countless
households.
Not that television is bad. Like other forms of communication,
including radio and the Internet, it can be both helpful and
harmful -- depending on how it is used. And how often. It has been
estimated that average Americans will spend eight years of their
lives watching television. Laurence J. Peter sums up one of the
greatest problems of excessive TV viewing among children:
"Television," he says, "has changed a child from an irresistible force
to an immovable object."
Katherine Coroso Jackson, mother of pop star Michael Jackson,
explained this about her son: "It all really started when Michael was
three or four years old. The TV broke and the kids started dancing and
singing to entertain themselves. I convinced their father they were
good, and after he listened to them, he agreed with me." The TV broke
and, well, you know the rest of the story.
If your TV broke, what might get fixed? Or, put another way, if you
turned your television OFF today, what might get turned ON? An
interest in a project you've wanted to begin? An new way of relating
to those you live with? Community or public service? New friendships
or adventures?
The Jackson children changed from immovable objects to an irresistible
force the day their TV broke. WHAT might get turned on in you the day
your TV is turned off? Want to find out?
-- Steve Goodier
P.S. AIN'T IT SO
If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of
rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you? -- Garrison Keillor.
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"Indian blood is like gold, no matter how thinly spun it shines just as bright."
"Only if we stand together as one people can we hope to overcome all the injustices suffered by our people. We have to learn to agree to disagree, and stand as one people regardless of our personal differences."
Strong Heart Woman
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