Culture and Its Effects

Hey Everyone!

Well, I'm pretty exhausted right now. And what am I doing? I'm blogging! Ah me... I still need to practice a presentation some more, and I have a lot to do in the next week and a half. A paper, three tests, lots of reading... The list goes on and on! Oh, and I have registration next week as well. At five a.m. on Thursday. The day of my two tests. Boy oh boy will next week be fun! Please pray for me. It's going to be a rough ride.

Anyways, I've been thinking a lot about culture recently. Being at a liberal college certainly has its benefits, but also its problems. There's rarely a day that I go through without hearing the "f" word at least once. If I don't hear it, I certainly read it! The book I'm reading in English now does not make me very happy. It's so depressing, and the need for a savior for all these characters. It must use the "f" word at least once every page, and has other choice words for you to read if that isn't enough. And the subject through the book has mainly to do with sex, lust, and just plain ol' sin. Bad choices seem to haunt these characters throughout their lives, and the culture accepts them as normal. Sadly, in today's society, it's not seen as a bad thing if you live with someone whether you're going to marry or not. And in the culture of the book, beating your wife, raping, and such is all part of the culture. It's truly heartbreaking. For women to be so degraded, and then to let the men treat them like that.

If you watch a TV show now a days, it's like watching a soap drama with younger people. Sex isn't just a thing to stay away from now, it's something to be expected. Subjects you NEVER EVER would have talked about are now blatantly exemplified. It truly depresses me. I just don't know if I can watch these things anymore. I'll watch them at the gym, but I think I'm going to stop just because I'M starting to think these things are ok when they're NOT. Things that used to bother me don't really bother me anymore, and that's when I know I have to be really, really careful about what I expose myself to. Even music plays a major role. It's all about the physical "I wanna be with you, baby" relationship. Talking about flying when you get kissed and when you touch. It's like all people expect now. Man have our expectations lowered dramatically. It used to be that couples didn't even kiss till their wedding day! How I sometimes wish we could go back to those days... I'm not saying they were perfect days, but they sure were simpler.

So now I'm taking inventory of what I allow into my life again. I want to protect my heart because God wants me to protect my heart. Not because it's the right thing to do or that I'm a goody two shoes. It's because that's what He wants out of my life. Purity. I would encourage any of you girls out there to read Leslie Ludy's book Authentic Beauty! Awesome book, and she explains things a lot better than I. Elizabeth Elliot's book Passion and Purity is another good one. For you guys out there, Joshua Harris' book I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Boy Meets Girl are two great books for both genders that I've read. I believe Leslie Ludy's husband, Eric Ludy, writes many good books as well for you men out there.

Peace to you all!

Keri Lynn