A PRAISEWORTHY LIST

As I have pondered Philippians 4:8-9, I have been pulling together a list of (mostly secular) things that hit me as true, noble, lovely, admirable, excellent and/or praiseworthy.

Here is what I have so far, in no particular order:

• Les Miserables, both the book and the Broadway Musical.
• Any original Bugs Bunny cartoon, especially Rabbit of Seville - "There, you're nice and clean ... although your face - looks - like - it - might - have - gone - through - a - ma-chine." 
• The Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. 
• The old Peanuts comic strip with Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and Snoopy. 
• Ryan George's Pitch Meetings on YouTube. 
• Any music by Weird Al Yankovic or Ray Stevens.
• Tim Burton's movie Big Fish. 
• Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Frank Oz.
• A little known movie called Local Hero. 
• The short story "A Mother in Mannville" by Marjory Kinnan Rawlings.
• Beethoven's Symphony Number 9 (Ode to Joy). Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Anything by Mozart.
• The Cottonpatch Gospel by Harry Chapin.
• The writings of Adrian Plass, British Christian humorist. 
• Influence by Robert Cialdini. 
• The music videos of OK Go. 
• The poetry of Robert Frost.
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth. 
• Mother to Son and Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes.
• Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
• The original Winnie the Pooh stories. 
• Paintings by Norman Rockwell. 
• Rembrandt's painting The Return of the Prodigal Son. 
• The original Muppet Movie and the Muppet Christmas Carol.
• In fact, any version of A Christmas Carol.
• And since I've brought up Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life and A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.
• Believer and Thunder by Imagine Dragons. 
• Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens. 
• Any old comedy featuring Bob Newhart, Victor Borge, Tim Conway, Carol Burnett. 
• The Three Stooges. 
• Banjo music. 

What's on YOUR list?