I AM appalled!

Teaching Sex Education to Kindergarten Students

How Young is too young? If you're too young to do it then you're too young to know elicit details about it. This is an old video clip, I guess I missed when it was in the news, but seriously? Sex education starting in Kindergarten? As far as I know some kindergartners still forget what comes after L,M,N, O ?, or what color matches with what or even how to contain their bladders during nap time! And you want to teach them all the details of their 'privates' and tell fifth graders about different types of sex!? Hello...this is your wake up call! If you don't teach your children about having good morals and the value of purity one day we could actually see a sex education like this implemented in our public schools. T.V has already gotten ahold of this younger generation with teenage melodramas about teens struggling with sex and complicated relationships. Our youth are getting older and older at a younger age. Someone will educate your child if you don't, and that education may set them up for a lascivious lifestyle in the future. Are we so much of a sex-driven society that we are making this much of an effort to educate children about the ins-and out of sex. It's bad enough that every other magazine in the rack reads something like " 8 new sex tricks to try", "what your boyfriend secretly desires in bed" or "how to achieve the most intense orgasm" !! Gag me! I don't want to spend my leisurely time reading about your ideas on lust, nor do I want young children hearing about how to improve their sex-life. The earlier we teach them it's okay and it's normal and everyone does it then guess what, the earlier they are going to feel comfortable with it, seek out, and experiment with it. What about an education in the importance of hard-work, commitment, self-control, or how about self-respect and valuing your body as a temple not a instrument of yours or someone else's pleasure. Kids absorb everything you tell them, everything they see, everything they hear. What are we broadcasting to the children growing up in America today? What about your own lifestyle? If an eight year old kid were to follow you 24/7 for an entire week would you be okay letting them watch everything you do and hear everything you say? Don't miss your opportunity to stand up for what is pure, what is just, what is morally right while you still have the freedom to do so. Because who knows one day a law might be passed which will arrest anyone opposing such a education system. Get involved in the youth and children and even toddlers lives around you because there is always someone trying to educate them and to often the God of this world is much more loud clear than the voice of purity and holiness. If a baby can hear and see and smell and feel they are learning something from your actions. You are never too young to be taught about the love of God!

I AM renewing my mind

                            I am skillfully and wonderfully made.  Crafted with precision by the hands of God.  Designed intricately from the inside out.  I am an immaculate conception, conceived because of love.  My body is not merely flesh and blood but a temple which hosts the living God who dwells on the inside of me.  I am unique in design.  If all the zillions and zillions of stars in the sky were people you would never find one like me.  My Creator sits and counts the grains of sand and as he rolls each one between his fingers He ponders upon me.  He not only calls me His creation for I am more than the plants and animals, but I am His daughter.  He looks down from the heavens and watches me, protects me, loves me.  He gave me fingers to write, feet to dance, a voice to sing, eyes to see, hands to build, ears to hear, a heart to love and a body to live and move upon this earth fulfilling a purpose!  Have you forgotten who you are?  This is the truth about you!  Your circumstances, life experiences, failures or mistakes don't create you.  You existed long before those things came to be.  You were an act of love. God desired to create you!
                          This month I am taking the time to read through the book of Proverbs.  No matter how many times you read it you will always learn something new.   This is arguably the best book ever written on purity.  If you feel like you want to be inspired by purity then begin to read the book of Proverbs.  It teaches discretion, wisdom, prudence, resourcefulness and all things practical.  In order to renew your mind from the worlds mindset you need to wash it with something clean, just like you would wash your dirty clothes.  If you get a stain on your clothing its not going to come out magically.  You need soap and possibly a heavy duty stain-remover like shout to aid in removing the stain.  Your mind is the same; the thinking of the world and its ideas stain your mind.  You have to work in order to remove those stains.  The Word of God acts as the soap to wash your mind clean and replace former ideas with something new.  As you meditate the Word it removes old thought patterns and you begin to hear the voice of God above the voice of the world.  It's a process that you have to continually work at.  I encourage you to read through Proverbs and let it renew your mind daily.  The world has conditioned the mind of society to believe casual sex is okay, immorality is acceptable, and virtually anything goes.  We need to actively recondition our minds and our thoughts on a daily basis.  WARNING:  this is not an easy lackadaisical task.  Just like you have to study and repeat drills in school in order to learn something you need to commit your mind and heart to adopting a new way of thinking.
                       Proverbs 2:1-5 says, " My son (daughter), if you receive my words and treasure my commands within you so that you incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding; Yes if  you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God."  You see it takes seeking, and trying to understand.  You have to search it out, look for it, cry out for it.  It takes a decision from you.  I think everyone at some point needs to ask themselves, who am I right not?  First, what has made me who I am?  Who has taught me?  What did I listen to that I allowed to shape my mind, form my opinions and fuel my thoughts?  Was my source, my upbringing, my teachers right or wrong on the subject of purity and morality.  Challenge your belief system today, and dare to leave behind your old ways of thinking and venture out on a journey of learning what God thinks about who you are.  Let Him lead you into 2011 with a whole new outlook on life and the world around you.  I challenge you to rethink everything!  Forget who you've been, and let God bring out your true design and unveil your beauty as someone who is pure and undefiled by the world.  Renewing my mind today will change who I am and what I do tomorrow.  Change begins with one single thought...and I think I'll go read another chapter in Proverbs.