I have a habit of having the television on whenever I am home. I don’t so much pay attention to the programs, but I like having the noise. On the occasions when I do find my hind end firmly planted in the recliner, I have been known to enjoy a random program here and there. Last night I was typing up some minutes from my worship team meeting on hubby’s laptop - half watching one of these "new" shows. It would probably fall into the category of "reality tv" - though I really don’t know what that means anymore. Basically it was a show about marriage and family. It ended up grabbing my attention because it was so utterly...depressing. The entire show was about these women who had gotten married, some had children, and ALL of them were outrageously unhappy. It was just so very sad to watch them try to fill their lives with really bizarre and ultimately meaningless hobbies which in the end left them emptier than when they began. Several of the couples fought in ways I thought really only existed in junior high. (Apparently, some people never grow out of this behavior.) Many of the children outright hated their parents who admittedly weren’t doing a very good job for one reason or another. All of them seemed completely forlorn, lost and hopeless.
I do not claim to have a perfect life or a perfect marriage. I am certainly far from perfect. But in a really sad way, this show encouraged me through its demoralizing content. Maybe its my pregnancy hormones, or maybe its just that my eyes are being opened by Someone, but I feel this thankfulness welling up in me that wasn’t there before.
It’s a precious point in our life when we sit back and say "Wow, God has been so good to me." It’s a great thing when we realize a good thing before its gone. I would apologize for all the sappy content of my posts lately, but I really am not sorry one bit. I’m feeling pretty great about life lately. And I hope you are too.
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