Sucked In

Yes, I'm afraid so. I was sucked in to a television mini series at the beginning of the summer, and now I'm going to have to let it go.

When I first saw the advertisements for "Cedar Cove" on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday evenings I was looking forward to watching it. I'd never read any books by Debbie Macomber, but usually Hallmark provides good movies to watch.

One of my favorite authors, Janette Oke, had her first book series made into a movie on Hallmark, and it was a delight! Love Comes Softly paved the way for Christian fiction back in 1978. It came out about the time I was saved. There have been 8 or 9 sequels to the first TV movie, and I was hoping Cedar Cove would be as good.

When I first started watching Cedar Cove I decided it was a clean soap opera. With the interest of 10 million viewers (at least I think that was the number quoted) the series has continued into the fall and who knows how long.

After watching the episode the other week I seriously considered not watching it this past Saturday evening. But I turned on once again.

I stopped watching television shows more than 10 years ago and began a movie library of shows we can watch that are good entertainment, clean and positive. It's been much more enjoyable than turning on the television and not being sure of what my eyes will be explosed too.


Of course, I realize television shows are real life; life that goes on all around me. Bad things happen; people hurt people, and sex sells. I've experienced, seen and heard enough sad stories about life. Is this really what I want to be entertained with? Every time we expose our eyes to non Christian behavior our acceptance of that behavior becomes more relaxed.

Philippeans 4:8 tell us to think on " . . . whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—and anything excellent or praiseworthy.

Oh my, now that I'm caught up into the happenings of Cedar Cove I don't want to miss any episode. But I think there's a time coming, very soon, that the Hallmark Channel will not be turned on Saturday evenings to watch Cedar Cove.

This past Saturday evening I saw a preview of a movie titled "When Calls the Heart," and the title sounded familiar. Sure enough, it's another book series by Janette Oke scheduled to show on October 19th. I will certainly be tuned in to that!

What are some movies in my home library that are good entertaining shows? November Christmas, A Smile as Big as the Moon, Ring the Bell, Front of the Class, Beyond the Blackboard, Come Dance at my Wedding, Candles on Bay Street and The Note.How do these differ from shows like Cedar Cove? These shows are about life too, but dwell on the positive instead of the negative. Yes, things go wrong, but the story is uplifting instead of depressing.

Pictures: Early Sunday morning I took corn down to our backgate and saw Mom and two fawn along the tree line.  A little while later the fawn came up to eat. The buck came up the evening before. He's a big guy! Not a good snap because the light was low, but those antlers stand out! We had buck, doe and fawn all enjoying the corn and grass as the sun went down Saturday evening. My fall garden is still looking lovely! The fawn's face below looks so forlorn. Mom turned around before they got to eat corn. I'm sure the little fellow is saying: "Gee Mom, why can't we eat some delicious corn!"