We didn't do much today...Drew was able to relax alot, which he NEEDED!
Church tonight was great -- it really stirred me! It was on the value of human life, our series is "Christians Behaving Boldly". The topics discussed were sex, abortion, porn, prositution, false image, media/entertainment, STD's, and sex trade (specifically Cambodia). Very powerful...and ALL these things are issues that I have really had a heart for (or well, against I guess) when I've heard them discussed and hearing facts and information about them. So, everything I heard was something I'm pretty passionate about. And as I was listening to what the pastor was saying and how he believes that we all feel that these are all the "norm" but nothing will ever change if SOMEONE doesn't do SOMETHING. I really started praying that the people around the room who seemed to really be taking in what he was saying and really seemed motivated by what they were hearing, would NOT go home and watch a movie and become caloused. So often we hear messages like this, as Christians, and we feel powerfully moved to do something...but the second we leave the doors of the church, we have left that Spiritual passion and drive inside and seem to wak away from it. So, I was praying that God would reach into hearts and prevent that from happening, and that the listeners would be moved to DO something, not to just agree. I think part of me was so passionate because with the want to become a parent, the thought of raising a junior high or high schooler in today's society...where sex and everything that goes with it is no longer taboo...where girls dress in a way that devalues themselves to get the want for attention and affection satisfied, and men are driven by lust rather than love to get their own physical and emotional needs satisfied...it terrifies me!!!
Church tonight was great -- it really stirred me! It was on the value of human life, our series is "Christians Behaving Boldly". The topics discussed were sex, abortion, porn, prositution, false image, media/entertainment, STD's, and sex trade (specifically Cambodia). Very powerful...and ALL these things are issues that I have really had a heart for (or well, against I guess) when I've heard them discussed and hearing facts and information about them. So, everything I heard was something I'm pretty passionate about. And as I was listening to what the pastor was saying and how he believes that we all feel that these are all the "norm" but nothing will ever change if SOMEONE doesn't do SOMETHING. I really started praying that the people around the room who seemed to really be taking in what he was saying and really seemed motivated by what they were hearing, would NOT go home and watch a movie and become caloused. So often we hear messages like this, as Christians, and we feel powerfully moved to do something...but the second we leave the doors of the church, we have left that Spiritual passion and drive inside and seem to wak away from it. So, I was praying that God would reach into hearts and prevent that from happening, and that the listeners would be moved to DO something, not to just agree. I think part of me was so passionate because with the want to become a parent, the thought of raising a junior high or high schooler in today's society...where sex and everything that goes with it is no longer taboo...where girls dress in a way that devalues themselves to get the want for attention and affection satisfied, and men are driven by lust rather than love to get their own physical and emotional needs satisfied...it terrifies me!!!
When I got home we turned the TV on, and we saw an add on TV for the new "decadent" M&Ms...it's all about the sexy green girl M&M with high heels and eyelashes...it's all in slow motion...she's rubbing her finger through chocolate and then on her lips, she's seductively bouncing up and down on the bed...the music is sensual...and at the end she's in a weird pose and she asks if their done, and the other M&Ms are there with camera equipment and are just awestruck and staring...and a light bulb breaks and they all kinda snap out of it...EVEN CANDY!!! good greif...and it's not only selling the "sexy" image of the candy - but the M&M guys are selling sex! Drew and I think the commercial is kinda humorous, but at the same time we're appauled by the image that it is selling. I realized that the prayer I was praying in church meant NOTHING if I didn't act as well! If I allow myself to become numb to the media, I too will forget that stirring from the Holy Spirit.
SO!!! I just signed on to my Myspace page...and it's GONE!!! I had signed on and there was a puppy video that I watched, and when it was done it wanted me to watch clips of movie stars for bad movies, people getting drunk, and girls in underwear...and I was mad about it...So, no more Myspace!!! I feel liberated!!!
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