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 Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:13 am
"Wouldn't think I'd fall for it. Wouldn't think I'd lie. I would sell you out, I would give you all away---Turkish Delight! The more I have, the more I want!''
-- David Crowde ''Turkish Delight''
It's been a few weeks since it has happend. Enough time to get over it, right? With something this deep, sometimes it makes you wonder. Especially when you're still within the midsts of a standstill like this...
Allow for me to back up: See, you may remember me mention the Porcupine in the family. Young, bright, unstable, and very unwise at times. A few weeks ago, he stole over $400 from the family. And I mean over, as in it didn't stop there. He took $25 from our aunt.
Porcupine has had his great deals of troubles and issues. But sometimes, it both makes me sick and just feel so hurt to even think about what he has been doing. The things he says, sometimes. I mean, I remember like yesterday, four adults in the family pull together to buy him a --I think it was like a 4-gig maybe more Ipod?-- ENGRAVED!
And Mother Hippo just took him under her wing years ago, going to court and saving him from an unfit household. By no means am I calling her a saint, but she and Grandmother Hen had not deserved to be stolen from.
So what do you call it when a teen--despite what he is given by his guardians everything he could ever need AND want? And still takes, and fights, and lies, and pushes, and betrays... STILL asking for more STILL looking for more attention and not taking responsability for actions.
I'll tell you what it's called it's call ''GREED''. Only one of our wonderful 7 DEADLY demons that God has warned us about. DEADLY. Keyword.
DEADLY as in saying ''oh, it's not a matter of playing with it that will make you bad-a** and get you a title. DEADLY as in ''it's a bottomless hole, and you had better have the wings of the Merciful One, once you fall in.
To fall into a DEADLY sin means all consequences and responsability is on YOUR shoulders. God didn't state these sins long ago to just make us sit here and feel ''oh, that's not fair! I want to do that it's so cool and so few do it and do it right!''
No!
--Lust
--Gluttony
--Greed
--Sloath
--Wrath
--Envy
--Pride
These seven words should NOT be taken lightly! They were not blackend words made to scare us before we go to sleep, but to be warned from the darkest tendancies of man.
No.... sometimes, I look at these words. Those aspect, those PURE aspects can NOT be human! They just can't! It's NOT what we have been made for...
And if you're sitting here thinking ''Well, you don't know just how bad my life is'' as a teen, I will say, wait, and pray. Learn now that there is no strongerpower than the power of prayer. Through ALL the crap and worst you are going through, you were given ''Prayer''. The one-way no charge for long distance cell phone number of all numbers. Rely on God.
But don't. DON'T even think that you have to succumb to these earthly and dark things to feel better and to get more...
I know you can't even fathom how this has hurt myself and our family. It's like a water ripple, and our family is close. One aspect is faltering, and its affecting us all.
The thing is, anyone close to me may tell you, they've notice a change in me lately. I'm a bit more watchful and a bit more mindful of things. I think it's not one thing, but perhaps I'm just growing a little bit more, but I don't think the child in me is gone, I just feel myself wanting to watch the outskirts of my circle a little more closely, to make certain all is well before I rest.
But the point is, I understand why adults say what they say, and what they do when teenagers disobey. And why they act sometimes the way they do. And I know, a good mother is thinking a lot less about ''What's I've done for my son'' than I'm thinking of her, but ''How will I teach my son to derive from this?''
Can you imagine?
Anyway, I will pray about it, and see what happends. I'm not sitting here saying I've not forgiven. Perhaps I just needed to reflect on it.
But either way, my brother/sister, please just take the time to concider those seven words. And what they really mean. And always remember, there is NEVER a time where there isn't a way out, and there is never anything FORCING you to face any of these aspects.
You can bring it upon yourself.
And you can prevent it....from swollowing you whole...
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:15 am
This is stright from my newest blog entry, a newest concern going on in my family..
I thought I'd share it here.
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Beloved Conversationalist
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