Are You Ready?! Cuz We Are!

Dear Readers,
Well its the beginning of a brand new year,and Leana and I have decided to accept the challenge of stepping it up in 2008. Our goal for this blog was to spread the the fullness of what Purity is and take a stand on matters that defy this, in our generation. Although 2007 was a time of laying essential ground work, we plan to begin to commit ourselves more to the purpose of Purity and spreading the Gospel.

Some Things to Look Forward To:
*More Posts
-we are working on getting series of posts on purity from the point of view of a guy!
*Change in Format (we will be switching to WordPress, yeah WordPress!)
*Covering More Topics (Sex, Drugs, Rock N' Roll, + many more!)
*Videos ( we want you to see us in action!!)
*We have a Myspace Page! We need Friends!

I Have a Confession.....

Many teenage girls are sick with promiscuity and immodesty. This is usually because of the lack of a father or the lack of a father who showed them the love and support they needed. So because they lack that love, they search to fill the void with the love of another man, which turns into the wrong man or many men. But what they find is not love, but lust and infatuation which quickly boils down to hurt and loss. So when we talk about purity to girls this is usually a topic we hit on. But I'm here to say that I am one of these fatherless girls!!!!! Its true, my real father chose not to be in my life, and even though a man stepped in to that position, i never felt that love from him. As a result, something in me wants to feel affection from a guy even though my mind knows its a cheap imitation of love. Its my flesh. For some reason I feel if i get affection from a guy, its going to fill that void that I have. So why am I not out there being promiscuous? Because I realized who God is and how perfect His love is. I had to make a conscious decision to go against every feeling I had. It's been tough and its something I still deal with, but i know that if I deny myself, God has so much more in store. He promises to be a Father to the fatherless.
So I wanted to write this as encouragement to anyone who can relate. There is a God who loves us and He is the only answer to our problems.

Snow!

Its a wonderful thing! I know many people don't think it is, but I love it . Today after I made a really cute snowman, I was just laying in a pile snow and I started thinking about a bunch of stuff and a great analogy came into my head. Purity is like snow. Both are supposed to be cherished because they are 2 of the most beautiful gifts from God. If you don't think snow is beautiful, then look outside at any untouched patch of snow you will notice the little sparkles in it when the sun shines on it and you will realize how pretty it really is. Many of us take these two things for granted and we see them as burdens or curses and we don't cherish them. Our purity is a gift from God. We are lucky that God is giving us another chance, because he could easily send us all to hell, but he doesn't. He doesn't, because he loves us so much and he doesn't want us to suffer even though we definitely deserve it. Also I just want to let everyone know that purity isn't just a calling for unmarried people, its for everyone. Purity isn't just staying away from sexual activities before marriage, its many things. Its being clean of sin, so this means making yourself like God, and staying away from swearing and being like the world. Another similarity between snow and purity is that if you compare an untouched patch of snow and a patch of snow thats been walked through , which one looks better? Personally I think the untouched snow does or you could say the pure snow. That is my point, us humans mess up God's gifts. We go through his wonderful snowy creation and make it all dirty. We do the same thing with purity, we make it sound bad, hard and definitely not fun. Also, we have done this with sex! Sex was another gift from God it was originally the way to get beautiful new life and it was a wonderful thing to be shared only inside a marriage. Then humans perverted another one of God's great privileges into something dirty and we misused it. Now children are even doing it! because tv makes it look fun and exciting. Now everyone is joking about it and making is sound like its a human right to have sex with who you want, whenever you want. Thinking about this honestly makes me sad, because I realize that I have taken all of these things for granted and looked at them in ways that God did not intend for us to look at them. So I know I'm going to think about these things and ask God to forgive me. I hope no one thinks I'm trying to tell them how bad they are, because thats not what I'm doing. I just want us to cherish beautiful gifts that God has given us before it's too late and before we mess our lives up anymore.

I can but you can't

Double standards! There are a wonderful thing, aren't they? jk. Personally I hate double standards, they just bug me, but I noticed that even if we don't realize it we all have them. The only thing is that not everyone vocalizes them. But my point of this post is that I really can't stand when someone says " well I believe that it's ok if a guy does this but a girl can't". The main thing that brought this up was when someone said that they thought that purity was a good thing for girls but that it was kinda pointless for guys. Yes, this person is a guy and no this person is not a Christian. At this time I brought up the fact that unless he was plaining on compromising his purity with another guy or himself then he would be taking away the purity of a girl and he just said that he thought being pure was a good thing for girls. His answer to this was well i believe that its actually not that important for anyone and that if the girl was willing to give up her purity then thats her deal and I'm not gonna say no. I also asked him why he believed purity wasn't that important. He said because sex is an important part of all relationships and with out it you couldn't have a good connection. I just kinda laughed at this because I have heard it many times. Next, this was probably my favorite part of our conversation. He added that he believed that if a guy views porn thats ok, because its natural, normal and every guy does it. When I asked him so what if a girl did, he said well that would be odd and that would be wrong, because thats not normal. So all in all this just really ticked me off because the whole time he just acted like guys can do whatever they want but girls have certain rules. The one thing I still find funny about this conversation is that he contradicted himself a lot, but when I pointed that out he would make a bunch of excuses and add another point into the discussion. Just to clarify we do not believe that viewing porn is ok for anyone, mainly because its definitely not of God.

I'm Sex!!!

A poem

So last night I was watching Lord of the Rings and a line in the movie wouldn't stop going through my head and I ended up writing a poem. This poem has nothing to do with purity, at least not to me, but I felt I needed to share it.



Don't go were I can't follow,
Please don't leave me here alone.
All I want is to hear you again
To feel your touch
And to see you for the first time.
I need you here to guide me through my darkness.
To help me through my confusion.

I need you
The reasons are clear as black is white.
Will you still accept my ruined soul?

Don't go were I can't follow.
I don't want to be lonely anymore.
My eyes are blind,
To what you have in store.
I know I try to walk away from you
Which hammers your limbs once again.
Unfortunately nothing will take away the pain I've caused.

Don't go were I can't follow.
Please don't leave me behind.
I'm here begging for your forgiveness
Even though I don't deserve it.


So after I wrote this I read it over to see if it has anything to do with purity and I figured out it does. The first thing I realized is that many people when reading this would automatically think I was talking about a guy. Which this poem is not about a guy, it is about God. From this I noticed that many people in this generation, mainly girls turn everything into something about a guy. But this is the opposite of what God wants us to do. God doesn't want us to be like this, he wants our number one priority to be him. To me learning this is a big key to staying pure, because we have to get our minds off the world's perspective of love and keep our minds on God's path.

Dee Koester

Tonight I went to the City Wide Prayer Meeting. As I was sitting there I saw Dee, a lady in our church. This past week her husband died, but we know that he is in Heaven, right now. I don't know exactly how long they were married, but I know it was longer than I have been alive and that they loved each other very much. So Here is a woman that found the man she planned to spend the rest of her life with ( something I pray for), but now she has to be without him. As I was sitting there thinking about this, I was watching her. She was stretching her hand out praying for people, but it was the look in her eyes that got my attention. In her eyes you could see the sincere concern and compassion she had for people. So while I'm sitting here feeling horrible for Dee, she is overwhelmed with love and joy for others. I was both inspired and taken back by Dee, because I saw just how selfless her love for Don and God are. She rejoices knowing that her husband is in a far better place, and though she might be feeling loss she still reaches out to others. I think too many times, we think of love in a marriage as something we need to have and receive to be complete. This is selfishly seeking love, but, proven by Don and Dee, the love that lasts is selfless. I want to leave you with this thought..........Is it possible to seek for what is selfless, selfishly, and find it??