Grammys Corgi Country

Today I turned on the television to my favorite channel to watch the 700 Club on TBN and all I got was snow. Snow is ok… in small amounts at a time… on the ground… once or twice a winter, but I don’t like blizzard conditions on my television set! I like to watch this Christian television channel to make sure I get good stuff going into my brain, and not so much of the depressing or junk things that are on so many of the other channels. My son went up onto the roof and adjusted the antenna until we could at least watch and hear that channel until the show was over.

When we finished watching the 700 Club, he checked the rest of the stations that we usually get, and they were all a mess. Some you could see a little bit, while others were completely gone, so we (my son mostly) spent most of the day, working on our VERY old, decrepit television antenna. He has “mickey moused” it many times over the 18 years that we have lived here, but with the rust and wind bending wires, etc. we were afraid that it had decided to “bite the dust” this time.

He worked on it for almost 5 hours, and a lot of that time, I had to be standing at the door with the channel changer. I would flip through the channels, while he worked on the roof, twisting and turning the conglomeration of wiring he has been creating to bring in the “over the air” channels, and to see where the best reception was for each one, while I called up the results to him.

At one point, about half way through, he thought he had it, and came in to the living room to check some wiring and connections in here to see if maybe that was why he couldn’t get it all exactly right. While he was doing that, something happened and it all messed up again. Boy was he frustrated… (he’d already had a frustrating morning working on the truck which isn’t starting right, and finding 2 more small waterleaks.) Finally, he ended up figuring out that one of the wires in the cable had broken, and he was able to take off the bad part and rehook things up so that it works alright now.

As I mentioned in my blog of a couple of days ago, I have been thinking a lot about how important it is to be reading my Bible every day because it shines the light of God’s Truth into my life so that I can stay on a safe path. Today, I started thinking about the old antenna, and how we really haven’t paid much attention to it (like keeping the guy wires taut for proper support, etc.), so the winds have bent it back and forth over the years, and the rains have cause parts of it to rust. Because of this, something broke, and it could no longer conduct the proper signals into the television.

The Bible says in Philippians 4:8 “ whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable… if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.” If we keep our spiritual bodies strong and in good condition by putting good things into our brains, they won’t have “broken wires” in them and we will be able to “conduct” good examples that will bring good, clear messages to those around us. I’ve mentioned before, I think that modeling good things is the best way to draw others into a better, more healthy way of thinking and, hopefully, living.

May noble, pure, lovely, and admirable things surround your lives today…

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