SPT - Something Borrowed

Ever since I found out the topics for May's SPTs, I have been looking forward to this one... it all started at the January Ladies Night Out at church when we each shared a "fun fact" about ourselves. One of my friends shared that she and her husband are addicted to the TV show Lost. Jason had mentioned that he wanted to watch the DVDs of Lost, so I asked her if we could borrow the DVDs. Thus started our obsession...

For the last 3 months we have eaten a WW ice cream bar and watched at least one episode almost every night... our record being 6 episodes in one night. And yes, these are all viewed after the boys are in bed! So now we are officially Lost nerds! We tune in to Lostpedia.com often, theorize, talk about the canonocity of the show, discuss Jack, Kate, Locke, Sawyer, Sun, Hurley, Charlie and crew as if we are best friends with them. We cry, we laugh, we get mad, we get irritated with "the others" and we are nervous about what will happen next to the survivors of Oceanic flight 815. We wonder about the numbers, the monster, why is future Jack popping pills, and why did Charlie have to die?!?!?

So now we are done with Season 3 and ready for season 4... which will probably be watched on the computer. I have mentioned before that I have a hatred for the TV, and fear not, this is our only show.

But then about a month ago, I had a MAJOR spiritual revelation. I'm not kidding when I say that all we talk about is Lost... we were devoted to Lost. And that bothered me. We know all these fun facts about the show, talk about what is happening and debate theories every, single day. So here is my revelation... are we that way about the Bible? I mean, the Bible IS our guide. It is the Holy Word of God. Were we reading it every night? Were we as devoted to God's story as we were the story of Lost? Could we tell you as many scriptures as we could Lost trivia? Were we as excited for God as we were about Lost? Unfortunately, we did not like our honest answers to these questions.

So Jason and I decided that every night as soon as we laid the boys down we were going to study the Bible together. We started with 1 Timothy and read a chapter a night. We also picked a verse each week to be our memory verse. We've made it through to Titus now. And we have been trying to "live like missionaries" and talk to people about God with the excitement that we talk about our new favorite show.

What changes have I seen? Now we talk about the Bible too! We are praying together as a couple again. And our house seems like a much calmer place. We still love Lost and we still talk about our Lost friends, but our priorities are correct.

So SPT friends... what is your something borrowed? What are you devoted to? What do your families do to keep your priorities focused on our Lord? And, are you addicted to Lost?!?!? :)