When you’re thousands of miles away from family and friends, you grab at anything that will connect you with the place you once called home. E-mails, photos, news articles, TV shows and movies – I devour everything about the Philippines.
Since we hooked up to TFC, I have become a TV addict. I will watch any show, even those that I never even cared to look at while in the Philippines. And with TFC’s new technology, I can actually watch at my own time, pause, fast forward and watch a show over and over again. After work, I need to get my daily fix of my favorite telenovela. The two younger kids watch eagerly with me.
I get even more excited when I receive e-mail updates from family and friends. And I just love pictures – I look at every face to see if I still recognize each one and check what has and has not changed.
Yes, I will grab at every bit that fills my hunger and takes up the empty space that aches for home.
I pray every day that I will have the same hunger for God’s word – to know Him more, find out what pleases Him and what He wants for me. I know that my TV addiction is taking precious time away from praying and reading the Bible, and I am struggling with it. For what can be better news than the good news of salvation?
He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD. (Deuteronomy 8:3)
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