I'm Learning

I responded to Mike Cope's blog yesterday or the day before and felt pretty good at what I wrote. But then today, when I went back to his blog, he sort of downed what I had written. I know he didn't mean it personally, but he didn't get the essence of what I was saying. The blog was concerning the t-shirt he saw in a family resturant which had profanity on it and wanted to know what our stance should be on the subject. I think he phrased it as what is our community responsibility? He got all sorts of responses, some negative, some positive, but I think my disappointment was the fact he overlooked or did not see what I was saying. I guess in reality that is not his fault, but mine alone. I am not able to write what I am thinking. My point was that what is someone else's freedom may infringe in my rights. Where do we draw the line? Who is the dictator of that? In our minds it should be God, but the world does not recognize him, so where do go from there? Obviously, we are not all on the same page. But isn't that what Christianity and warfare into the darkness is all about? We can shelter our selves from the darkenss all day long, but we are still of the world. It is all around us and at some point, we are not able to shelter ourselves or our children any more. I think someone on the blog had the right idea that we need to be particular in teaching our children to protect themselves and give the tools to combat all this. It is like us telling our girls to look for the right mate, but more importantly, be the right mate. We need to tell our children to watch for danger, but more importantly be prepared for the danger.

That is what I was trying to say yesterday. I gave the example that my dad will not even watch TV or a movie if a curse word is spoken. He just shuts himself out. I don't want to do that but to enable myself to arm against it. Be ready for it. If I never allow it to hit, then how can I be prepared for when the strong one comes. It is like a vaccine. Given in small doses it doesn't inflict the germ and we become immune. But there is danger in that immunity also. So, it is a fight to become injected in small doses to prepare for the big fight and not become totally immune. Hmmmmmm.......How do we do that? How do we accept others and still stay true to our convictions? How do we take small doses of wrong to prepare us for the big war but not become complacent? These are thoughts to ponder.

Mindy may come home this weekend. I hope so. I am ready for another dose of her smile. I want to hear more about Trent and see her light up when she talks about him.

The kids will be out of school this week. I know they are ready and I hope the summer is good for them and doesn't go by so fast they cannot enjoy it.