Good Friday morning!
I expect that some folks will be going camping this weekend, but we also have graduations going on and some schools will be calling it good for the school year very soon. Children will soon be roaming the streets and yards of your town. Put the water balloon down; there's no "season" on kids. Tossing water balloons is a childish distraction at best anyway. Distractions... can't live with 'em, can't just get rid of 'em; to paraphrase an old joke. Life is filled with distractions. Some are good for us, such as setting your work aside for a week or two during the summer and going camping. Others are not so good, such as flirting with that cute gal when you should be working or discussing that cute guy when you should be paying attention to the lecture. We have many potential distractions in this life, and some of them can lead us away from God. We all know that some movies are not good for us to see. The same can be said about most other media that we have access to; even some books are not good for us to read. Discernment in this can be difficult to learn. We must learn from the Holy Spirit what we should or should not allow in our lives.
One thing that most people don't want to give up to follow Jesus is the latest movie, show, or magazine that they enjoy with their friends. The latest movie can be a very social experience, both in viewing it and in discussing it with friends or coworkers. Once the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts, we can easily see that many of the latest shows or movies would be bad for us to see. Images can endure for years, even our entire lives, and there is a danger in this. Those images can intrude later in a serious moment when we don't need them to appear.
A distraction has just arrived in the form of two cats. They are doing their morning scrapping...right on the table where I'm trying to write. Some distractions are not of our own making. We do not and cannot control everything in this life. Praise the Lord that He is in charge!
God bless you!
Bucky
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