Feeding Our Minds

For the past four years I have been attached to my phone.  Not because it keeps me connected to friends and family, but because I can access my rhapsody account through it and listen to my favorite songs any time I'd like.  And if anyone were to take a peak at my numerous play list they would be utterly confused.  Not one playlist sticks to a "theme."  It's random and can range from country music to gospel to rock.

My current playlist is no different.  It's a collection of songs I wanted to hear just thrown together.  It's random enough and then we hit a string of Matchbox Twenty before moving onto Hinder and ending with The Crabb Family.  I've never paid any attention to it until this morning as I was sitting at my desk this morning.  Normally I listen to KLOVE at work, but after listening to the same song rotate every few hours, let's face it, I get bored and irritated.  Today I wanted to listen to Rhapsody.

As I'm sitting at my desk, my phone is randomly selecting songs.  Now when I added Hinder to this playlist, I didn't select the songs I like, I just added all of them.  I truly wasn't paying attention to lyrics.  The music is on for noise.  (It's the only way I concentrate!)  The song was Striptease.  And I guess it was halfway through the song when I realized the line about the paparazzi.  I quickly moved to the next song, but it got me to thinking.  Here I was listening to this song and quickly moved to The Crabb Family.  For anyone who was around and heard the change - what does that say about me?  I mean it's my music.  I am the one who added the songs to the playlist, whether I realized it was there or not.  (Onlookers typically do not care about that sort of thing.)

I'm supposed to be a witness to the world; to those onlookers.  It was a wake up call for me to be more mindful to what I listen to.  I know more so than anyone that the more profanity that you hear, the more it creeps into your mind until it spews out of your mouth without even registering first.  It's an infection that can get away from you before you realize.  Today I choose to remove such triggers in my life.  I choose fill my life and my mind with quality material that serves and worships Who is most important in my life.