Mmmm, definitely time for a xanga site revamp. It's been a long time but I'm REALLY tired of the Truth and Certainty argument being fought out on the rock. In case you haven't noticed, it's a one sided argument seemingly done by angry people who have no idea how to appropriately sort out their anger. I loooove how so 'uncontradictory' it is to say "peace if possible, truth at all cost." Um, if YOU were so focused on thr truth you're trying to point others too I think you'd have argument. If you REALLY wanted truth, not a self-righteous argument mayeb you'd have actually sought out those you had a problem with (pretty sure that's biblical) and tried to understand them (liek the bible says we should) and regardless, loved them (pretty sure God commands that one!). Why on earth do we expect the world to respect the fact that our God is life changing when we cling so closely to our own pride!?!? I don't think the argument is about changing faulty views, I thin it's about winning and that makes me sad because God never intended us to have so many fighting factions! By our love people will know that we belong to Him!!! If you have doubts about where people stand, seek them out. I've spoken to those in question and from what I know, it was all a silly misunderstanding. Reagardless, peace goes hand in hand with this kind of truth. Peace in the Body should come as a natural result of us choosing God's truth over our own emotions. It doesn't mean we always like or agree with each other, but it also doesn't mean we hold our grounds like three year olds fighting for space a couch they're BOTH sitting on!

hard as it may be, I'm gonna love you

knowing that you love me

and I'm gonna teach myself to trust

'cause you've never let me down

and I know that you don't fail,

and I know you know what's best

so I'm gonna learn as best I can

and leave you with the rest

Lord, when my affections wane

when they turn to someone else

bring me back, call my name

draw me near to you

I need thee, oh I need thee

ev'ry hour I need thee

oh bless me now my Saviour

I come to thee!

shout out to the guys who fight for purity!!!

(i know my entries have seemed a little bleak towards the male gender but i know there are those of you out there fighting against all sorts of odds so tha you can honor God and you have NO IDEA how encouraging that is to us girls... we really want to know we're worth waiting for)

so apparently everyone has an opinion on my last post but noone wants to actually POST their opinion. Peeps, you don't have to agree with me, I honestly don't care and if you're glad I finally posted what a lot of us are feeling, you don't have to care either... keep in mind this is my xanga... therefore, I write what I FEEL like writing (highly different fromt he way I would present a public address) and these books are really getting under my skin so I'm writing about them. I'm also not exactly one to shy away from talking about 'taboo' subjects and to be honest, I don't exactly understand why sexuality is such a taboo subject in our culture anyways.

I believe there are sexual taboos sure, but GOD was the one who made sex and if  He didn't want us to enjoy it then He wouldn't have made it so enjoyable (or so I'm told... ). There is NOTHING wrong with sex in the RIGHT BOUNDARIES, the problem came when we began to pervert and distort sex and sin began to permeate it, even within the right confines we still battle with all sorts of problems. You know the saying "anger is what gets us into trouble, pride is what keeps us there"? It's kinda like that saying.... sin is what's got us where we are, broken and far from complete but silence is what's keepign us there. Did you know 78% of men say that their sex education from parents, guardians etc was insufficient, that it didn't teach them what they needed to know! The entire book I'm reading is based on studies of "good, religious and moral" men.

Many of these men came from godly homes with parents who loved them.... my guess is that not talking to their sons about sex was an attempt to love and protect them. Many men raised in religious homes feel an incredible amount of guilt for struggling with all kinds of very NORMAL issues. A 25 year, in depth study of thousands of men showed that almost all men studied thought they were the only ones struggling to deal with certain issues. Turns out that all those men, during all that time, struggled with pretty much the same 3 questions. I think parents are tyring to raise their sons right by raising them how they were raised. It seems parents think that the instruction was right but somehow it's their fault that they're different and unable to 'cope' when in reality they're perfectly normal but the instruction they were given, and are now passing on to their sons, is far from adequate. I think it's a cycle that's eating us up.

Anyways, that was confusing... too many of the same words clumped too closely. To make my point, I think there's a serious problem with sexual sin in our generation and the one before us because of inadequate teaching . Many people our age have NO IDEA what is really going on in them and how to handle it and because no one's talking about it, it's gonna bite us in the butt 20 years from now when we finally start getting the truth.... after we're all tangled in all kinda of problems. The only way to solve our problems and to avoid more is to find out the truth and start speaking out about it. Reading these books makes me all the more thankful for the mother I have who forced me to start finding truth out early, while she could teach me how it all fit into God's design for us.