I read this article by John Piper about television. It stirred my heart. It made me think. And it put some things into words that I’ve never quite been able to put into words succinctly before.

I think that much exposure to sensuality, banality, and God-absent entertainment does more to deaden our capacities for joy in Jesus than it does to make us spiritually powerful in the lives of the living dead. Sources of spiritual power—which are what we desperately need—are not in the cinema. You will not want your biographer to write: Prick him and he bleeds movies.

This is a scary paragraph for me, because… well, prick me and I nearly bleed movies. I can quote lines from Notting Hill, That Thing You Do, School of Rock, and many others until the cows come home. Remarkably, I have very little aptitude for memorizing important things.

This is a good reminder that what you set as priorities are the things you end up spending time on. Not the things you act like you’ve set as priorities, but the things you actually treat as priorities. A good reminder, but a scary reminder.