I read and I write. I spend hours each day
reading, news, blogs, articles. I have a Kobo and read on the gym stationary
bike, treadmill and elliptical machine. I enjoy diverse genre. Fiction is an
escape with espionage, crime thrillers. I find when a good script is converted
to film, an increase in sex, violence and profanities occurs. Recently I have
watched some good and bad movies on YouTube. I am not happy with the
fermentation of dialogue in my psyche. I find my dreams and morning waking mind
filled with distasteful language, vulgarities, profanities that I never use.
And at my age I ponder a day when losing my marbles my mind will seize on
language convenient to recall, and I will spout expletives at my family and
caregivers. I am convinced that my proportion of wholesome written and visual
input must increase. I am making an effort. I am more discerning and I am
prioritizing refinement, spirituality, and unpolluted prose. I pulled the
apostle Paul close to me and he whispered something he told believers in
Philippi, "And now, dear brothers
and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable,
and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are
excellent and worthy of praise." That's what I am doing. (Phil 4:8)
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