A New View

This is a picture of Isis, the new lioness at Brookfield Zoo. She loves her new view by the window.

The last couple of months I've succeeded at viewing less television (especially the news!). One of the big reasons why is the media has always liked to filter our minds with about 20 minutes of nothing but bleak, depressing news. The media wants us to feel like all is lost, there is no hope in the world.

Well, I want a new view, a more positive one, one that says that God still exists and is still in the moving and shaking business. Well, I definitely got that at church on Sunday. Eddie James (ejworship.org) visited our church with about 30 youth. His ministry has a recovery program that rehabilitates troubled youth and college age students. These young people were on fire for God! Why? Because God freed them from drug addictions, alcohol, rape, and even homosexuality. God is Great!

Sometimes we forget that we have control of what we fill our minds with. We can easily turn off that negative energy we get from the news, the talk radio, the political commentary shows. We can have peace, we just need to make that choice.

Take in a different view!