Times are a changing. It’s the end of an era for me…today, I removed the “gossip” section of my Google Reader. I believe the whole reason I started Google Reader was to keep up with my gossip blogs. I loved being in the know. But, for three weeks now I’ve just been pressing “Mark All As Read.” I’ve officially stopped caring about what is going on in the entertainment gossip world. I know If I need to know something I’ll get an email discussing it. I still see headlines on Twitter, but I don’t need all the rest of it.
1 Corinthians 10:23 23“Everything is permissible”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is constructive.
While there is nothing wrong with reading such things, i.e. it isn’t a sin. I started dealing with the fact that it wasn’t very beneficial or constructive in my life. What was I gaining? Knowledge of things that really don’t matter when all is said in done? I’ll still keep up with what’s going on in the world…I just don’t think I need to subscribe to it. The day EP told me that “all [I] do is scan through Reader and read gossip” I knew I had to back off. I don’t want to fill my life with that.
Now hear me, my friends, I am not saying what is right for you or that I think everyone should quit, or any of that– not at all. Just for me, personally, I have realized this is part of my life that is idle time and that I should be doing something more fruitful (like, errrr, blogging about it. LOL!!!)
But this is MY journal and that is what’s on my mind.
YES! That was a good word, my friend.
I’ve been doing the same with my reader lately. Purging to only have some of the more positive blogs and hopefully blogs of others with a love for Christ. Just don’t have the time to read the negative attitudes of others.
Yay You!! I know how addicted to the gossip you were.
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