Go Green!

As a nation, we need to "go green." Not to save the planet, but to save our souls.

I recently read a blog about Green Cleaning and it was on my mind for days after. There is so much buzz out there right now about going green and recycling and all those other "Save the Planet" measures. We are supposed to recycle our trash, have a compost pile, not flush, use cloth diapers, clean with baking soda instead of bleach, ride a bike instead of driving and make a million other lifestyle changes in order to better the earth for generations to come.

For generations to come...funny, isn't it? When will the people who say "Don't drink cow's milk because its loaded with hormones," "Don't eat non organic vegetables. You don't know what chemicals they use to grow them," stop loading their bodies with chemicals and hormones to make their lives more "comfortable"? Wouldn't it be "green" to practice abstinence instead of taking chemicals and hormones? Why are people ready to make changes like recycling or riding their bikes to work, but sexual self control is too hard? They are not willing to risk filling the landfills or leaving a "carbon footprint" but they are willing to risk STDs?

I see good in the green movement. For my family, I want to go green in ways that will simplify our lives and make us more self sufficient. When our chemical cleaners are gone, we plan on mixing up our own. We recycle newspapers. We hope to have a nice garden this year. There is more room to rely on God when you are not relying on corporations to sell you food and cleaners.

We look upon morbidly obese people as having a lack of self control that disgusts us. We need to look upon people who use birth control or have abortions as having a lack of self control that disgusts us. Our nation needs to go morally green. Abstinence needs to become a good word again.