Two nights ago we did something that is rare in our house, watched TV.  To tell the truth its not so rare for the grownups to turn on the TV for background noise at night (usually Food Network or HGTV) while we do other tasks but it’s never on during the day.  I think the boys forget there is such a thing, but from time to time we do enjoy a family movie night.  We checked the guide on Sunday night and saw that Animal Planet was showing Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom and since we haven’t had a “movie night” in a while we thought it would be nice to cuddle up and watch.  We turned on the TV and there was a commercial for another animal show called Untamed & Uncut.  The show is about shocking real animal behavior and accidents and the scene on the screen was of an Alligator closing his jaw on a his Trainer’s head.  The boys were horrified and asked why people would show this on TV.  Good question!  I explained that seeing that kind of thing can remind people that animals are wild an unpredictable and they shouldn’t do foolish things like stick their heads in Alligators mouths.  My youngest told me that he might have a bad dream now after seeing that so we turned off Animal Planet and put in an Adventures in Odyssey DVD.  Sure enough, later that night my older son woke up from a nightmare about a crazed bunny chasing all of us around the house trying to bite our feet!  We had seen some cute little bunnies in the field at the park on Saturday and somehow the memory of those innocent bunnies was morphed with the angry Alligator in his dreamy 6 year old mind.  It’s amazing how images on a screen can impact us.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.” Matthew 6:22-23