Stupid Girls

Dear Bloggers & Blog Readers,
I had to write a post on this subject, because, well, I am one. At least I was one. You know that every girl at one point has heard all the "fairy tale" stories about love. You know the ones, the girl is wonderful and has something special to offer, there is always a prince, who, when he finds the girl is swept away by her beauty and grace. What I've learned and what the stories don't tell you, is that 90% of the time the prince is absolutely wonderful while wooing the girl, but afterward, when he's had her for a while, he turns into something even worse than the beast. I'd beg for the beast right about now, and if you've been there you know what I mean.
As it seems, I'm not the stupidest girl in America. That title is strictly there for my best friend, Jenny. Now, she was my best friend in High School and for a few years out. I still think of her, and pray for her, because I know she isn't doing it for herself. Jenny has made a few possibly irreparable mistakes, as well as a few good faith mistakes. We all make those, the good faith ones. At least I know I have, but I can't speak for everyone.
I always pictured her with a wonderful man who would sweep her off her feet constantly and consistantly. She deserves someone like that. Jenny is beautiful, a wonderful, caring, and generous woman. She looks like a perfect mix of Britney Spears (body) and Snow White (complexion) with the brightest, most sparkling, sky blue eyes ever granted to a human being by God himself. She's a wonderful mother and a devoted wife. The only real bad part to her is that she is very gullible.
As far as good faith is concerned she's made the mistake of falling in love. Not just in general, but with someone that is against her faithful upbringing entirely. Her husband, Jonathan, is Wiccan. She thought like everyone else has at one point that Wicca is not really a religion, that it was just a game you play with magic. To me, Wicca is the devil's religion, though I may receive many hate messages to counter that idea. What she knows, and what I know, and what all our friends know is that this behavior of rituals and spell-casting is bringing her further away from God. Any Christian knows that if you carry yourself away from the Lord, his blessings get further away as well.
Now, she has turned her back on her family, her friends, and most of the goodness she knew in her life before. Jonathan tempted her and because she is so gullible, she fell for it. Not that I'm calling it a failure of self, by chance. It sounds very familiar as far as most womens lives are concerned, though not generally to this extremity. When she turned to this man (the term "man" used very loosely in this case) she must've been looking for a father for her daughter. Her daughter's father being in jail and not accepting his paternity, she had no choice but to find her a role-model of some sort. What she didn't bargain on, was a father-figure who was more like a nightmare. He decided that his wife wasn't good enough to be in bed with, so he took out his disgusting fantasies on her daughter. Subsequently, her daughter was removed from her care by DSS. Many other factors came in to play as well, but for the sake of sealed records, I'll keep my mouth shut. She stood by him through that. That alone is enough to call her a stupid girl, but no, there is more. Instead of leaving him and fighting like hell to get her daughter back, she decided to not only stay with him, but to have another child with him, to try to make him stay with her. (Insert heart attack here.) They had a beautiful baby boy, that looks just like her.
And that's where I must leave you. To wonder where this woman is, how she is doing, and how her family is getting along without her. I don't know these answers. All I can hope for is that my prayers are being heard and that she is safe. There are women out in the world everyday who make the same mistakes she has made and they are no longer with us. I pray she isn't one of them. We love you, Jenny.

The War In Iraq & Elections

Why is it that so many people are against the war in Iraq? Do they realize that they know nothing about what's going on there? There are reasons why we don't know anything. If we all knew every gory detail that the President is privy to, we'd be running in the streets like mad people or moving frantically to other countries. There are very few operations that the American government actually releases to the press for that very same reason. The things we hear of are the dumbed-down versions of real events that took place and generally we hear of them 2-3 days after they already occurred.

If you feel misinformed you aren't the only one. All I can say really about the matter is that it doesn't matter which President we elect into office, because the candidates running only know half the story. Once a President is elected and sworn in, then they go through a rigorous week of meetings, briefings, and informative work sessions. Although the bits and pieces that the candidates do know add up to more than we do, they still have no real clue what lies in store for them once they take office. Don't forget now all those promises that your particular candidate has lined up for a specific pull-out date. Only to warn you, they may re-think the matter once they get all their briefings. Only those brave men and women fighting for our country know the full brutal truth about this war. And even then, not all of them know every gory detail.

Every war-time country has had second thoughts about it's involvement, this isn't new. Don't you think that France, a normally peaceful country, had second thoughts about it's involvement in WW2? What about Poland? Taking in all those refugees they were lucky that they weren't dragged in as well. We aren't the only nation to be pulled into a war larger than us.

Many also forget that this is a war that is a modern day extension of the same war started over 2,000 years ago. The only difference now is that the world has modern day weapons and tools that they didn't have that long ago, as well as many democratic countries that see these stories on the news and call out for a fight we know is much bigger than just "people". This is a religious war. Think about how you feel about your religion. Would you stand up and fight day-in and day-out, knowing that the cause you fight for is a different cause that the other side fights for just as fervently? Certainly I would. Would you stop fighting all of a sudden just because a country that hasn't had anything to do with you all this time jumps in and tells you how to run things? I didn't think so.

Just keep that in mind before you jump up and yell that this war is criminal. Also remember that the day after 9/11/01 we all begged to get inon this fight. And now, just because so many lives are being lost, we are begging to pull out.

God Bless Our Troops... All of them.