Ceremony

Here's a powerful little thing, heart breaking, actually, that I was e-mailed regarding violence on television - that thief we have allowed in to rob innocence from first our hearts, and now our children's hearts. How hardened we have become...

Ceremony

She sat quietly, in the electronics section of the Fred Meyer Department Store, with straight black hair, wearing a dress, knee-high socks and patent leather shoes. She must have been around three years old; her face just inches away from the television screen.

Innocence coupled with violence without the opportunity to make a distinction.

There were no other family members gathered, no witnesses, no special ceremony.

Her parents close by looking at a wall of monitors, trying to decide on which one to purchase; oblivious to their child’s baptism into the world.

by Greg Simpson

HT: Baptism Into Television
@ mywordlikefire.wordpress.com

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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if
there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:8, KJV