Hi All,
OK before I start, let me say that I mean this first part in jest. Let's take a look at the news for a few minutes. As I have stated before, I live in Fort Worth, TX. Over the past few days, we have had an ice storm that shut down most of the city. We did need the news to tell us which schools are closed and which businesses are closed and we did watch it for that. But what we didn't need the news to tell us was what was going on outside. When I looked out the window, it was white outside. There was sleet on the ground and ice in the street. When I looked at my wife's car the windshield was covered and so was the top of my Expedition. The conclusion I drew from all this was that there was sleet on the ground and that the roads would be bad.
Fortunately for me, I didn't need to look outside because for the entire news broadcast, they went from one person to another showing sleet on the ground. Each one of them would take their cue and act like they were breaking a story worthy of some type of national news prize. It would go something like this:
Newscaster: Now let's go to Frank in downtown Fort Worth.
Frank: I want our camera man to zoom in on the gutter by the side of the street. Get a tight shot of the white stuff. As you can see from our close up, the rain that came down earlier was affected by the drop in temperature. When the temperature went below 32 degrees, this liquid turned to a solid and it's now sleet!!!
Newscaster: Thank you Frank for that information. Now let's go to Sue who is in Berkeley. Sue, what do you have?
Sue: What we're looking at here is the total coverage of an entire front yard plus their bushes with sleet!!!
This scene goes on for 30 minutes! Why is that when we got it the first time?
OK now on a much more serious note, we do need to be careful of the amount of time we watch the news. Remember news companies get paid to sell stories and for the most part, bad stories sell much better than good ones. The last time I watched the news, there were three stories about bad things happening to people, the weather, one bad story, sports and ending it all was one bad story. If you feed yourself on those things, you can start to meditate and focus on these bad stories. Before you know it, fear can begin to creep into your life and the next thing you know, your eyes are on more of the bad things going on in life than the good things that God can do for you.
I made a decision to spend very very little time watching the news and like one of my favorite preachers said, I missed several crisis that were on that I didn't even know about. They didn't bother me in the least. If you are going to spend time watching the news, I suggest you pull out the Bible and see what the news is on your future!
That's another Opinion of the Minion.
OK before I start, let me say that I mean this first part in jest. Let's take a look at the news for a few minutes. As I have stated before, I live in Fort Worth, TX. Over the past few days, we have had an ice storm that shut down most of the city. We did need the news to tell us which schools are closed and which businesses are closed and we did watch it for that. But what we didn't need the news to tell us was what was going on outside. When I looked out the window, it was white outside. There was sleet on the ground and ice in the street. When I looked at my wife's car the windshield was covered and so was the top of my Expedition. The conclusion I drew from all this was that there was sleet on the ground and that the roads would be bad.
Fortunately for me, I didn't need to look outside because for the entire news broadcast, they went from one person to another showing sleet on the ground. Each one of them would take their cue and act like they were breaking a story worthy of some type of national news prize. It would go something like this:
Newscaster: Now let's go to Frank in downtown Fort Worth.
Frank: I want our camera man to zoom in on the gutter by the side of the street. Get a tight shot of the white stuff. As you can see from our close up, the rain that came down earlier was affected by the drop in temperature. When the temperature went below 32 degrees, this liquid turned to a solid and it's now sleet!!!
Newscaster: Thank you Frank for that information. Now let's go to Sue who is in Berkeley. Sue, what do you have?
Sue: What we're looking at here is the total coverage of an entire front yard plus their bushes with sleet!!!
This scene goes on for 30 minutes! Why is that when we got it the first time?
OK now on a much more serious note, we do need to be careful of the amount of time we watch the news. Remember news companies get paid to sell stories and for the most part, bad stories sell much better than good ones. The last time I watched the news, there were three stories about bad things happening to people, the weather, one bad story, sports and ending it all was one bad story. If you feed yourself on those things, you can start to meditate and focus on these bad stories. Before you know it, fear can begin to creep into your life and the next thing you know, your eyes are on more of the bad things going on in life than the good things that God can do for you.
I made a decision to spend very very little time watching the news and like one of my favorite preachers said, I missed several crisis that were on that I didn't even know about. They didn't bother me in the least. If you are going to spend time watching the news, I suggest you pull out the Bible and see what the news is on your future!
That's another Opinion of the Minion.
