Originally posted on June 5, 2006

If our government enforced a curfew for all citizens in the name of keeping us from experiencing freedom, there would be an old-school revolt, the kind our forefathers made over taxes on tea.

Yet, there is a curfew that many of us are under that we don't just look forward to, we actually self-police it! It's a curfew that starts surprisingly early - 7pm in the Midwest. It's a curfew ordered by NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and the like. In exchange for not experiencing my own life, I am told to experience Howie Mandel's.

In the past the networks have lifted the curfew during the summer. But in recent years they have attempted to keep the curfew going all summer long. This summer is no exception. But there's good news - absolutley nothing that they will attempt to substitute for real life will be worth digesting.

I like a few shows as much as the next guy, but if I'm not careful it can get a little out of hand. And I want my life back. So this summer, I am resisting the curfew and pledging to live my life
and experience more of God's creation.

Go ahead: break curfew. Live your life. God gives you permission.
Remember, the Word on the street is "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (John 10:10), not: "I came that they may have life, right after these messages."

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