"Is that a fly on my nose? Is that a comet!?!"

High Definition - the name of my addiction.

If you have not had the opportunity to watch a baseball or football game in HD signal, I highly recommend it! For the true sports fan, there is nothing like it! Finally I feel that the best seat I can have to a ball game, is at my house. Everytime I watch an event in HD, I am blown away by it. I find that sometimes, I will swap between ESPN and ESPNHD channels to compare the two. The clarity of HD brings another element altogether to watching sports, I can see the blades of grass, the spin on the baseball, we can tell if the receiver really got both feet in bounds or not. There is something about watching HD that makes it feel like you are there, makes it more real...
Maybe it is because now I can tell that the ESPN anchors on Sportscenter are wearing makeup. They look more human now, their tiny beads of sweat give them away. The clarity adds a view point that I have never seen before, and though I am watching only a ballgame, it is different this time. All because of my clarity.
I think that might be why I have found myself envying the life stories of believers that came from a troubled time to find God, and now are on fire for Him. I believe these people have been introduced to God in "high-definition." For too long, many of them were receiving a weak signal, and when they finally tuned in to God, that got Him in HD. I believe that is why I feel sorry for my kids. Not just my kids in the youth group, but to the kids that my wife, Kyla, and I have not had yet. Someday, Lord willing, I will sit around with my son and watch a Cowboy game in High-Def, but it will just be TV to my boy. Like I have with my faith, he will have grown up with HD. He will not know about the "dark ages", the time before HD, much like I do not know what my life is like without God. The game will look the same as all the others, the clarity the same; this is the way it has always been. He will not know the greatness of HD because he cannot compare it to the normal signal.
I pray that this does not fall on our kids. I pray that as parents, ministers, elders, siblings, friends, whatever; that we create a high-definition ministry for our youth. I want kids to see God in high-definition! I want kids to be awed and amazed everytime they see The Father, everytime they read the Bible or see a life changed by their actions to share their faith.
I am very grateful that my parents brought me up in the church. I do not want to discredit the faith of those that have always gone to church, vs those that have not. There is however, much to be learned from both ends of the spectrum.
In Him and in HD,
M@