Society is so different today. I am constantly being shown and reminded about this.
Our children are always being exposed to so many things where ever we go. I hate letting my children go into the gas station with me. Some gas stations put their rude magazine's at eye level of younger ones....you think "I am so glad they can't read".....they don't need to read, they only need to look.
Even socialization....it has been a hot topic for what now....ever! lol. I have really been wondering about it alot more lately. What exactly was I worried about....did I have any real concerns.....what? Recently one of my boys came up to me after our Bible time together and confessed something that a boy he knew from a year ago....before we moved out to the boonies, had told him. I was completely floored, and I just wanted to yell at someone. My son was laying there sobbing....because he repeated it recently to someone else's child in our church. He was horrified, thinking everyone would hate him now....he was sick to his stomach with grief. I was sick to my stomach too....in shock and yes grief. I am mad. Not at him. But I am mad. I know this other child has no idea what he could be saying. His parents were decent folks....unbelievers....but good people. Their son at time was only in grade one...what could he really know? My son was older than him....yet age doesn't matter. His innocence has been twisted and perverted.
I have come to realize something....I really need to teach my children to guard their gates. I told them the other day that their gates were their eyes, ears and mouth.....and their hearts. There are somethings that our eyes have no business seeing, and our ears no bussiness seeing...and the same with the others. What we see stays with us for along time and it can really affect our behavior and how we feel. What we hear can really do alot of the same damage. My son and I had a great talk about it first alone in private....I won't share with his sister and brother, why cause more injuries. But I told them that if we choose to hang out with friends that don't value our feelings...then we need to choose new friends. If they talk dirty to them, then they need to close their ears and tell that friend goodbye, and walk away. It is so hard for my children to do this. We are more isolated now where we live, and I don't drive....we can't afford for me to drive.....but in someways I am seeing that maybe we can't afford for me to not drive. I need to be taking my children out and keeping them busy. I think too if we are too idle, and our minds are not kept busy, then thoughts can play and rewind and replay. I know on my stero I can set it to play the same song over and over and over. It is one thing it if is uplifting and filled with living giving words.....but not words that violate ones innocence.
I have this year chosen to begin on teaching my children...the boys and the daughter, about purity. I finally got some of my books in, that I ordered. Because I want to really make a statement on how important it is too keep ourselves pure and free from sin...and I am so not one too talk. I am such a terrible sinner....I almost feel guilty teaching this to my children....I am not clean enough. Ugh! I am a sinner, but I can teach my children to recognize what is good and bad and flee from the bad. I feel really strongly on this issue, and I would like to share some things as time goes on with what we discover.
Blessings from acraisydaisy | 
