As I drove to church I noticed a red-tailed hawk flying ahead to my right.  He was being buzzed and harassed by two blackbirds.  Suddenly he swooped lower and to the left, right in front of my vehicle.  I thought at first that his maneuver was an effort to evade the pesky blackbirds, but instead he landed upon a dead squirrel on the roadway right in front of me.  During the next second his talons gripped the squirrel, I swerved to the right to miss him, and his trajectory and momentum managed to lift him safely off to my left.  It was a close call.

I thought to myself, that hawk’s interest in the dead squirrel almost turned him into road kill, too.

Do humans ever do that?

“Yes,” the answer came, “every time they click on something they shouldn’t.”

I’m sure there are many instances in our lives where, if we allow ourselves to contemplate some piece of disgusting road kill, we risk becoming the same.  It happens when we gossip, when we view pornography, when we allow ourselves to hate, and probably every time we break a commandment.  Each time we let our thoughts go where they shouldn’t, our spirits become weaker, the Holy Ghost distances itself from us, and the adversary slips in.