If You’ve Ever Wondered What Life Would Be Like Without TV, I Just Found Out the Hard Way

What I Discovered After Nearly a Week Without Television

by Rev. Paul J. Bern

(James chapter 1, verses 5–6)

For nearly a week now, I have had to do without television. I got a new TV last Christmas from some people who I know very well and who are very close to me. It’s a very modest flat screen unit with only a 24 inch screen, but it’s been doing fine up until now. But around the first of this past week, I turned on the TV and discovered that I had no more sound. There was only video, like watching TV with the mute on. I sent an email to the manufacturer’s help desk, but it took 5 business days, and I finally heard back from them this morning. Fortunately, the prescribed fix worked. But I’ve learned a lot in these last 6 days about TV watching and how much time it robs us of our time every day. But let me tell you, life without TV is better, so much better.

This Week’s Study Verses

26) “Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27) Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by…