HeadTheology

This month at my church is cultivate beauty month. Like most I thought to myself ‘what the heck, how the #$(# do you cultivate beauty?’ And the second question is when does the typical person have time to cultivate beauty once they even knew how to cultivate it?

For the first question I think that depends on the person and their interests and talents (such as photography, music, painting, writing, building, etc…though I certainly don’t think that it is limited to that for I know for me at least a good meal is just as beautiful as as good book though it doesn’t last as long so I guess cooks are included in that list also). But I digress. The second I is easier to answer for the one time during the day that most Americans do for at least a few hours that they could and should give up……….watching TV. I think it is something like 4 hours the average american spends watching TV each day (though that seems a little high). Nevertheless, so along with this month in order to have time to cultivate beauty it is also kill your TV month. (Last year I heard they actually got to smash TV’s at a party after church whereas this year the kids just smashed TV modeled pinatas. I guess that was a pro-pro decision since instead of a real TV having toxins on the inside being smashed a ‘TV’ is smashed and candy falls out.) The website is www.cultivatebeauty.com but it is not up yet quite yet probably since our church got robbed the other night and they took everything, and I’m guessing even the server that had the site on it.

It is sort of ironic I think, but at the end of the month my church is having a film festival were I think as of now they have something like 23 locally made movies submitted. So I guess the plan is give up your TV/movie watching for a month then watch two days of movies to catch back up for the time lost not in front of the TV.

I must note that I have already failed this month for though I am not a rabid basketball fan I did take the time to watch the final four. Which looking back was certainly a waste of time since the last 3 games were pretty boring. But spend the rest of the month with me by killing your TV.