You should know there are some things in this life that just do not interest me.  People may make tons of money talking about such stuff but it escapes my imagination as to why.  I do not get all of the excitement over the "Twilight" series of books or movies.  My attempts at reading the books lasted all of about fifteen minutes.  English was not my major but the writing sure seemed awful.  It is true that my daughter and I did read the books that must not be named.  At least J.K. Rowling had a creative imagination along with a positive message to unfold.  My personal goal is to avoid all of the previous mentioned books and movies.  What the appeal is to that just escapes me.

Celebrity gossip never appeals to me.  However long or short a marriage runs is just not terribly exciting in my eyes.  Do you ever wonder at how many people constantly purchase the magazines devoted to such information?  Stores carry at least a half dozen periodicals that repeat the same story week after week.  So now you can watch shoppers gather up most of those magazines to learn the latest scoop on people who have no idea who is reading their story.  Now you can have entire networks to focus on such news.  Add those programs to an unlimited amount of websites and you can imagine the overload we face.  But all of that drivel may be distracting but it is hardly interesting. 

Even the sporting world is becoming increasingly ignoble.  Human failure is being spelled out every day in some form or fashion.  Our once noble institutions and leaders are being revealed for horrific lapses in judgement and worse.  Men often use athletics as a form of escape.  We can lose ourselves in various contests or games.  Trucks are adorned with stickers and such to identify our favorite team.  Now our once safe place of refuge is crashing down in a heap of sinful humanity.  Sports reporting now seems like a recital of the police blotter more than it tells us about our team.  It is hard to get really involved in a team or sport when you wonder what will be the next piece of distressing news.

Human beings tend to use all manner of diversions to keep us from reality.  We could probably scroll through history to find this being true since the start of time.  What is odd is how we see biblical people as being a model of some strange reality other than normal.  Maybe being involved with God is not the unreal but the natural outcome of faith?  Perhaps people like Moses, David and Simon Peter were meant to be the norm for life?  Escape is the province of the bored.  Those who allow God to fill their life will have more than enough excitement to go around.  It's like Jesus once said, what moves your heart will be your treasure.  One can hope we rediscover the zeal of faith so our life reflects His presence and not His absence.

Bro. Trey