Cultural Creativity

I might have been in my twenties when I heard it for the first time... "Don't ask children to colour within lines... it stifles their creativity."

I remember loving colouring books in my younger years.  I still do, actually.  There... I said it. :D  I do not, however, recall being told that I HAD TO colour within the lines... but, oh how I wanted to!  And I did - eventually.  Many a picture ended up with weird colour schemes, but because they were nicely shaded WITHIN the lines, they looked beautiful... at least, to me.  The lines set a standard, and they gave me something to work towards.

The removal of lines, however, did not begin with the Early Childhood experts.  In the years since my birth, I have observed as we have blurred and obliterated other lines, and if we confined our destructive tendencies to our human traditions, that would be tolerable enough... but we don't.  We have all but destroyed the lines set up by our Creator.

I watched in horror on one visit to the clinic as a child (couldn't have been more than 5 years old) slapped his mother across her face with force that could have belonged to a 30 year-old man.  More horrifying still, was her response - {nervous laugh} "That's just how he is."  Parent-child distinction blurred... and now the children are in charge.  Somehow when Solomon spoke about the rod of correction, I always thought the rod should be in the possession of the parents... but what do I know?

Then, there is the young lady I knew who had 2 abortions, then went on to have four children - by four different men - while unmarried and unemployed.  She told me about her regrets (and nightmares), and in the process she unwittingly taught me that God has the better plan.  I lost track of her over the years, but as I see the 'experts' lobbying for a woman's right to choose, I am incensed... and I want to scream: "It's not about HER!  She had the RIGHT to abstain, and she did not.  Why should that child be robbed of life because she gave up her right?!"  When will they get it?  Unprotected copulation causes pregnancy, and protected copulation sometimes does as well.  Want a surefire way to prevent pregnancy?  Don't do it! ;)  Then there will be absolutely no need to tamper with the sixth commandment.

Our western minds have become so 'wide open' in an effort to be tolerant, that all manner of ideas have traipsed in, and we have forgotten to check to see what our Creator would have us do.  These days, teenage men can be prom queens and women ought to take over the leadership of households and churches.  Let me just say...  No amount of fudging the lines will make a gay man a queen, and the most excellent of mothers can never father children.   While I am at it, I might as well just add that a woman cannot be a "husband of one wife", so when we have decided in our minds that we are going to change the order of things... it would be wise to just leave Scripture out of it. 

In an effort to remove lines and promote 'cultural creativity' we have opened the floodgates of hell, so to speak.  We have destroyed our families and advanced the cause of the criminal elements. (After all, if human beings can be killed in the womb, why not outside the womb?)

May God help us all.

Blessings to you {if you came this far},