Josh Hatcher's Blog

Open Arms has been given a call. And it starts tomorrow.

I'm actually a little scared about this. I'm sitting here cramming... checking all my favorite websites, watching the Home and Garden Channel, and getting my "fix" to last me for five days.

TO be honest, I'm a junkie.


Television and the internet get way too much of my attention.. and I JUSTIFY it by saying that I\I'm watching family safe programming on SkyAngel, or I'm working on the "church" website, and looking at Christian sites...


but guess what.. the fact that suggesting going five days without them makes me scared tells me I have a problem.

and I don't want anything to get more of my attention than my God, and my family.... But a lot things creep their way in and seduce me with advertising gimmicks, or flashy design, or cool music... Sometimes they could be "godly" things.. sometimes they can be borderline, or downright wrong....


the point is.. The net and the TV have become such a fixation for me...


so, for five days, this is my last post.


starting at bedtime tonight.. No more media other than what I need at work to do my job....(which is media by the way)


and we are imposing it on the rest of the family... The kids have been runnning around.. Calling each other crude names they heard on some program... Their only media access will be the use of the internet for school... Sorry Michaelah, you can't go to barbie.com... sorry,. Abe, no Bob the Builder for you.


and sorry Josh... No more fox news channel, home and garden, relevantmagazine.com or even Open Arms Echurch Interact Forum...


I'll let you know how it comes out....