Reading Daytime Prayer today, using the Revised Grail Psalm translation, this verse from Psalm 119 leaped out at me:
Turn my eyes from gazing at vanities...
Which immediately put me (guiltily) in mind of my iPod Touch, which I've used to gaze at quite a few vanities in the few weeks that I've had it.
I would not have been so convicted had I been reading what is in our current breviaries:
Keep my eyes from what is false.
After all, you can't describe Angry Birds as either true or false. Just harmless entertainment, right?
The Bubble Wrap thing is soothing, as is the Air Harp.
And most of my apps direct me to Catholic news.
And my music, well, it's good music. Nothing with lyrics that would lure me away from the path of righteousness. And the diet/fitness app, that's not "false".
But vanities? As in ways to waste time when I could be doing lots of better things?
Yep.
Turn my eyes from gazing at vanities...
Which immediately put me (guiltily) in mind of my iPod Touch, which I've used to gaze at quite a few vanities in the few weeks that I've had it.
I would not have been so convicted had I been reading what is in our current breviaries:
Keep my eyes from what is false.
After all, you can't describe Angry Birds as either true or false. Just harmless entertainment, right?
The Bubble Wrap thing is soothing, as is the Air Harp.
And most of my apps direct me to Catholic news.
And my music, well, it's good music. Nothing with lyrics that would lure me away from the path of righteousness. And the diet/fitness app, that's not "false".
But vanities? As in ways to waste time when I could be doing lots of better things?
Yep.
