I remember the day Michelle and I replaced our 13-inch television with a 25-inch model.  We were in awe and sat in wonder as we watched our favorite TV shows on the “big screen.”  After about 8 years, we then upgraded to a 32-inch massively large TV screen.  And then in our 15th year of marriage, we made the leap again – from a lame 32-inch model to a huge-antic 42-inch flat screen.  At this rate, we should peak out at a screen the size of those in the cinemas by the time we hit 50 years together.  Always bigger.  Always better.  It’s the American way.

Last year, the Dallas Cowgirls (I mean Cowboys, excuse me) revealed a jumbotron to top all jumbotrons in their new stadium.  Its dimensions are staggering: 72 feet tall and 160 feet wide.  If you’ve seen it on TV, you know that the screen is just massive.  It hangs in the middle of the new stadium and has been known to block punts.  No one could have ever fathomed a screen that large, and the thought of yet a bigger screen was simply unheard of…until now.

The Charlotte Motor Speedway decided to one-up the screen in Dallas with a screen that will measure 80-feet tall by 200-feet wide – nearly 30 percent larger.  The screen will be made up of 158 panels consisting of 9 million LED bulbs, and the entire structure — which will weigh 650,000 pounds when complete, will reach more than 110 feet in the air.  Always bigger.  Always better.  After reading about all of this, I’m just not sure my 42-inch screen is adequate.  I’m praying that God will give me the money to buy a larger screen soon.  Will you join me in praying?  I think He’s all for the American way of bigger and better.

Isn’t He?