Right before we left Missouri, Ella knocked the TV off the stand onto the floor and killed it. It was an accident with her scooter, and really (he said with a clenched grin) not her fault.
We don’t watch a lot of TV in general, since we got rid of our satellite dish stuff a while back. We got cable with a DVR when we came to Nebraska, but we find ourselves listening to one of the music channels more than anything else.
But we did like to watch movies.
When the TV broke and I had to throw it away, we watched a little 13 incher I had bought for the kitchen.
Since we like wide-screen movies, that meant that the picture on the little tiny TV was smaller than the one on the laptop. But, of course, I like to look at the computer while I watch movies. I like to go on IMDb.com and see who is in the movie and stuff like that. So if we watched the computer, I couldn’t do that.
So we watched the little bitty one.
I had a strong problem. On the one hand, I liked my large screen TV. We had it for several years and it has been fun.
On the other hand, as my friend Pastor Mel likes to hear, I also love my wife, who killed my TV.
That presents a difficulty. How do you get irritated with someone you love when they hurt something else you love by accident.
Not that the similarity is completely good, but it is kind of like when the kitten knocked our laptop off the table and broke the hinges. Now it holds up with a Velcro strap. The kitten was just being a kitten and didn’t set out to hurt the laptop. Stupid cat.
Ella didn’t mean to knock the TV off the stand and break it. She, after all, likes to watch her Steven Seagal movies and all (I know. Weird, isn’t it?)
Sometimes things are just an accident. We live in a world that has to try to blame someone for everything and sometimes you cannot.
As Christians we should think the best of everyone and everything. In Titus 1:15, the apostle Paul said, To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. Our minds should be pure of casting blame.
We need to not look for things that are wrong. When someone does something bad, we forgive them. And we love them.
Even when they break our large screen TV.
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