in the world, but not of the world

I was bored at work so I decided to help stay awake by looking at funny stuff on failblog.com..

I noticed an offshoot called Bros. I decided to look at it just for the heck of it. It is full of pictures of the Jersey Shore crap and "men" acting questionably.

Partly it was amusing, like these people really exist.. haha.

Then it was troubling, these people really exist.. behaving in the manner that they do. Whether its bad acting, staged, or not, on the Jersey Shore stuff, it still bothering that there are young men and young women that really do behave in such a manner. To think that there are kids being exposed to that stuff. Entertainment or not, its not actually funny. It makes me concerned about the society people's kids and one day in the future my future kids may be exposed to. What is seen as acceptable is getting more and more loose. It seems values are going on the way side. As an option, not an expectation.

Before joining the Church, I behaved questionably. But not as badly as the examples of today.

I think it makes it even more important that parents and future parents pay attention to what their kids are being exposed to and what they are doing. It matters. Growing up, I didn't make it easy for my parents, but now I am thankful that they did keep an eye on me. That they did parent me. I thought it was the worst ever back then. Now I am thankful. While I ran reckless somewhat, the values I was taught were still in the back of my mind.

The following scripture has been floating around in my mind:

"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." John 15:19


Even though we may not fit in with society, today's society isn't something that we want to fit into.