This has been bothering me...

The other night Tony and I were watching this new tv show on abc called "Hooking-Up" (the title intrigued me), but I soon became so appalled at how these women wanted themselves portrayed on national tv! The one in particular that really got to me was this really cute girl named Amy, that felt like to move to the next step in her dating life she would have to sleep with this almost perfect stranger to see if he made it to the next round! She went thru 3 guys on this particular show, and pretty much had gone to bed with all 3 (I am not exactly sure what the timeframe for each one was...) but regardless it was GROSS! Yeah, yeah I know reality tv, but this was supposed to be highlighting on-line dating.

As we sat there talking about the entire thing, Tony and I were discussing how much more difficult it must be to find your mate later in life (unlike us who dated in HS and married soon after), maybe the adult dating scene is really like that. If you are out on your own, with no one to answer to but yourself, maybe the relasionship moves faster, but aren;t these people worried about diseases and pregnancy? Doesn't anyone have any respect for themselves to know that "giving yourself" to each guy that comes into your life is WRONG? Doesn't anyone wait until they find the one they want to spend the rest of their life with, and get married to? I guess I come from the "old school" where it is sacred, only shared with the one you truely love...am I alone here????

There was a good speaker in church today that we also heard about 3 weeks ago, and he was talking about this point, about how God wants us to wait, that if we give of ourselves to everyone that we are not going to end up with, by the time we find that perfect person; it is no longer something special just shared with them. (He used a piece of scotch tape as an example, that time after time of being stuck to the wrong thing, it looses it stickiness)

A girl that we work with was not taught to respect herself or anyone else for that matter, and like the girl on the tv, she sleeps with just about any guy she happens to have a date with, and now she has a child of her own, that gets in the way of her social life and therefore is getting the "short end of the stick" and most likely will be like her, with no respect for himself or the girls he dates. Frankly, I am so scared for my 2 children that they are living in a world full of people with no morals. Tony and I have a hard job ahead of us, teaching them right from wrong, and how to withstand temptation.

Today's sermon was about setting a good example for your legacy. (have you ever thought about your children in that fashion...as your legacy?) How saying what is right or wrong is not enough, you must live your life by setting a good example by doing. No one said raising kids was going to be an easy job, but if you think that raising a child is only feeding, clothing, and entertaining him when you don't have something more pressing to attend to...then you are VERY MISTAKEN!!

For me, I like to listen to the words of "Dr Laura" her advise is very truthful, and to the point, she doesn't take any excuses from anyone, unfortunately the girl at work has heard Dr Laura's show and has turned it off not willing to change her life for her son. To blind by fulfilling her selfish wants and needs to change for his sake...and hers.

Thanks for listening!