Awareness

Recently, I took a challenge to only listen to Christian music for 30 days. Today is the first day I am able to listen to secular music again, and I kinda flipped out. I need music. I can finally listen to The Civil Wars again!! Eep!
When I started the challenge, I was kind of expecting it to bring me closer to God, or cause me to think about Him more throughout the day, and I suppose it did. But more than that, it made me aware of the importance of choice. I mean, I had little choices. I could listen to the radio (K-Love, obviously) or BarlowGirl or Flyleaf. Stuff like that. But there were so many things I couldn't do that I hadn't really thought about. I couldn't watch clips of Eben Franckewitz on American Idol (I still voted for him anyway) or watch The Voice of clips of So You Think You Can Dance. I couldn't even listen to classical like the Pride & Prejudice soundtrack. (NOooooooOOOo!!!) Obviously, there were places where I didn't have a choice of what I listened to, like at dance or at the mall, that kind of thing.
So, yeah. It makes me think about choice a lot more.
Also, unless you don't check Facebook or Twitter very often, I'm sure you've heard about Kony 2012. If you haven't, you can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc&feature=g-logo&context=G209632bFOAAAAAAABAA or learn more at their website: http://kony2012.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
Now, the movement sounded pretty amazing to me. I'd heard about the Invisible Children movement before, and I support what they're about. Kony 2012 sounded like a great thing to me. But then I read this: http://thedailywh.at/2012/03/07/on-kony-2012-2/ and got kinda really confused. Although, honestly, I'm not sure I trust anything on a website owned by icanhazcheezburger. There's also a Christian review: http://networkedblogs.com/uVnEa
Honestly, I don't know what to think about it anymore. Research for yourself, but I still think the Kony 2012 movement is a good thing, but there are things that people don't see all of it.
Anyway, just some thoughts for today.
Lisa