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    Soul Static and Other Distractions – Filtering Through Lent

    What does this picture stir in you? Personally, I would like to climb right in and sit there and simply take it all in. We live in a culture where we are bombarded almost non-stop with multiple stimuli. It is estimated American adults receive 16,000 sensory images per day. What do you do with all the “incoming data” – the continual noise, mind stimulation, intrusive sounds, emails and twitter feeds, internet news coverage, blog sites, daily 24/7 television news coverage, newspapers? Their pull is intense. And, if you happen to have Sirius XM radio access in your car you have 24/7 news wherever you are – even on a quiet…