The Media

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Today at mass a deacon gave a homily. He touched on many points but one in specific caught me. He said,
"I feel like the biggest problem in our society today is,"
I waited to hear what he would say, curious as to what he thought it was.
"the media." He continued.

I was surprised. He went on to say that we watch so many people and spend hours of our days devoted to them, and slowly we become desensitized. We become desensitized to all of the bad stuff that the media contains. Now, desensitized is one of my favorite words to describe slacking, because it is so powerful. To be desensitized is to not feel, to no longer be alert to something.

When you think of becoming desensitized it is almost scary, to know that it is still equally as bad, but you just don't care anymore. I have become desensitized, and I feel that it is a common problem in society. To see gore, or listen to crude jokes, or foul language and not flinch. Slowly it becomes so common place that you don't notice, or don't care. How sad, huh? To know that we are settling for less than what is good, to be okay with the mediocre or straight out bad. We need to become re-sensitized to the world around us, we need to pray for change.

Media affects our society sooooo much. Without noticing it, you may change the way you look, act, speak, respond and even feel, because of a tv show or music. Media is what sets our trends and enters our lives and conversations. It is where we go for entertainment, or to have a good time. And if it is bad then it affects us no matter how hard we try. Do you get my point?

Now, I am not saying that everyone should stop listening to anything but praise and worship music, and never watch a movie above a PG rating. What I am saying is that we should become more aware of what we watch and listen to, it should still affect us. If you know a movie has awful stuff in it, just choose not to watch it. If you are listening to the radio and all of the sudden there is nothing but vulgarity, switch the channel.

Since media affects us so much, let's make sure that it is good media. Things that glorify God, or at least doesn't glorify sin and the devil. We can pray for change, we can pray for better media in our society. We are in such desperate need of clean tv shows, movies, books, songs, and magazines! When we pray, God answers. So let's all pray to be aware, let's pray for good, entertaining, clean media.

Peace and love in Christ,
Alyse