If you’re an online news junkie like I…was…(I’m trying to regulate my baser instincts), you’ll have discovered by now that Rosie O’Donnell will be leaving ABC’s The View in June.

Now I don’t watch that show because I don’t watch TV, but I’m aware of many of the past controversial moments via the blogging world. Rosie has said outrageous, insulting things on a regular basis on that show — often towards Christians — so I could have good reason to be cheering at her departure. Instead, I’m just kind of sad, and fed up with a much larger issue that has nothing to do per se with Rosie:

Talk has gotten so cheap, it’s not even worth the air the soundwaves are carried on much of the time. I increasingly think of how much talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk is floating around everywhere these days over every medium, and what is all this talk doing for us? Is it making the world a better place? Is it giving us sound counsel and wise advice? Is it improving the total sum of true knowledge that man requires to move forward?

I know I’m simply contributing to this talk right now, and therefore I’m a hypocrite for saying this, but I think there is a tremendous amount of value in shutting off the TV/computer/phone, sitting still, and listening for the Voice that is softly whispering to us everyday if only we had ears to hear. There is knowledge and wisdom flowing from Heaven this very minute for those who seek after it with all their heart, soul, mind, body, and strength. I’m still learning how to tune in, but I know one thing for sure: I’ll never get anything but static if I have all that other stuff turned on. For it is written:

“Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.”
– Ecclesiastes 4:6