Lately the news reports have bored me. As I scan through various lists of stories supposedly worthy of attention, most of them are easily understood by just the headlines alone. It’s just more of the same attempts to distract us from what really matters.
It’s not as if nothing matters, but very little of what seems to consume the rest of the world. We live by the leadership of the heart, and we are committed to a kingdom not of this world. It is the kingdom and kin-dom of hearts. Everything that happens in the world around us passes through that filter before it merits our attention.
What’s left from the mainstream news, and even the alternative sources, is very little that justifies the time to examine the issue. Even then, it’s mostly a matter of seeing the hand of God at work, and recognizing that certain ambient events will affect our kingdom service. But it remains a mere matter of planning and execution, not of goals.
You cannot claim to be a child of the Creator unless you act in His interests.
Imagine the type of mind that has to sift through all the news cycle garbage and get worked up about things out of their control. Humans weren’t meant to live that kind of mental life.