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Hooking up Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag, Pandora’s box is open, the floodgates and all that stuff. Yes, it’s true. Teens are having sex. This article talks about how teens are “hooking up” in a very casual way to have friends with benefits. It is disturbing that it is more common that teens are doing things are verboten in certain parts of our culture and it is sad to see lives destroyed from it and at best suffer through it.

For me, though, I think it is much more distrubing that this is news to anyone. This has always been a problem and will always be a problem. I read a lot of scare ministries that play on the fears of parents and teens to straighten out their kids or themselves and on the one hand completely see their side and on the other scratch my head and wonder why they think it is effective to use guilt to manipulate people to conform to their standard.

My wife did a study on 1 John and she always reminds me of the central theme that she saw in it. The world is the world and we shouldn’t be shocked when it acts according to its nature. We can cry for the people trapped in it, we can be frustrated that it won’t work, or even better yet, we can trust God and know that we win.

I had a challenge in my own back yard this week. I was hit from behind in my car. It was a pretty serious collison with an F250 and my two year old daughter was in the car with me. Needless to say, I was pretty shaken. I have been pretty shaken. I have been thinking about all the ways I could have prevented it, worried about his insurance paying for it (he has been lying about some details) and what we will have to do now to have a car. I see in my own life, too, that I don’t really trust God the way I should. I don’t really live like I have already won. I guess I need to listen to more Crowder.