I have been thinking a lot about a topic from church camp 1996ish or so. I don't remember the verse, but it was Romans and the theme was Trash In, Trash Out. Now being young I hated the idea of being limited on what I watched or listened to. Not that I had much freedom. My mom wasn't super strict, but we had limits. As an adult, I have kept and increased those limits on myself. I don't watch any movies along the horror/killer/devilish subject. I don't even understand how or why these films are made. How can anyone want to sit and watch it. There is so much of it in the world, and people want to watch people being violently murdered. It really makes me sick. I am by no means perfect. In all honesty, I love Twilight. It is questionable on the Christian level, but for the most part it is non-violent. Even stuff on the prime-time disgusts me. Language, subject matter, provocativeness. I tend to just watch kids shows because I don't want something awful popping up on the screen. I don't want my innocent babies exposed to things they don't need to be. Shep accidentally saw the news for a few minutes after the shootings. We had explained a small, delicate portion on a kid level of what happened to him already. I did not want him to see how or where it happened. He tends to fixate on things and keeps it in his mind for months. A few days later he took a play broom with him to bed and said "this will hit hard." I asked what he planned on hitting...he said "a bad shooter guy." I just prayed for God to put his little mind at ease. I can't protect my children from everything in the world, but I can try to limit the amount of trash that goes in. I hope my efforts will limit the amount of trash that goes out.
