Friday, July 23, 2010

The TV / Computer Addict's Prayer

Friends: Are we afraid, demotivated, or just plain discouraged to get out and make a difference? to live a life of significance? The following is sobering as it is likely the default option of choice in our generation when we retire from the idea that we can indeed affect others for Christ.

May it rightly nudge us push us in the RIGHT direction:

THE TV / COMPUTER ADDICT'S PRAYER
The computer / TV is my shepherd, I shall not want.
It makes me lie down on the sofa.
It leads me away from the faith. It destroys my soul.

It leads me in the path of sex and violence for the sponsor's sake.
Yea, though I walk in the shadow of Christian responsibilities,
There will be no interruption, for the TV and internet are with me.

Its cable and remote control--they comfort me.
It prepares a commercial for me in the presence of my worldliness.
It anoints my head with humanism and consumerism.

My coveting runneth over. Surely, laziness and ignorance
shall follow me all the days of my life,
And I shall dwell in the house watching a screen and clicking a mouse forever.

(Author Unknown; slightly modified)




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3 comments:

Rita Schneider said...

A thief broke in the other day,
And failed my best alarm;
Got by my sleeping cat
And stole extremely precious things
Things not to be replaced.
And ransacked lots of valuables,
A quite mysterious case.
He stole all of my reading time,
Purloined it by the hour,
And made off with my plans to pray
Which left me very dour.
He snatched away the precious moments
Meant to cheer my spouse,
And cut away my family time
Which made my home a house.
He must've drugged me at some point
I really know not how or when,
And filled my mind with filthy stuff, and violence and sin;
I caught myself not caring
about my moral state,
And even started questioning God's thinking on my fate.
I didn't see the robber leave,
perhaps he still is here!
I'm stunned to think
he'd stay around another day
or year? Wait! What's that noise?
A song? A story line? A scene?
Could this vile thief
Be hiding inside my own TV?

Franz Schneider said...

Wow! Who is that by?

Rita Schneider said...

Franz, I don't know who wrote it. I heard it many years ago on the Focus On the Family radio program.