This past weekend, my wife and I traveled to a Methodist Retreat on St. Simons Island. While there I was exposed to national news once again as we dined at local restaurants which all seem to have big screen tv's turned to a national news network. In only a few minutes, I was flooded with stories and images of murder, anger, corruption, violence, perversion, and vanity. Only interrupted by fund raising advertisements for "cruelty to animal" advertisements showing suffering kittens, dogs, and wild life and how our contribution of $5 per day could save these suffering animals. What about the suffering human animals in the world?
Needless to say, my weekend of R&R was finished with a full tank of anxiety from just the short exposures to the broadcast media's mind control garbage flooding the screens that surrounded me.
When I returned home, I read stories on the local news websites of local college girls who were subjected to an attempted kidnapping from a local grocery store parking lot adjacent to a college. The suspect was identified and when police went to his residence, he had hung himself! I read story of a man found shot in the neck, laying in a ditch in Savannah, alive but in serious condition. I read a story of two men found in a local apartment both with gun shot wounds, apparently shooting each other during an argument. And of course I read the story of 3 dead and 11 wounded at a Jacksonville online gaming completion at a bar downtown!
With my anxiety level high from media overload (doesn't take but minutes a day for me), I fall back on the bible for help.
Psalms 46:10 KJV:
"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."
As for me, back to my favorite TV station:
