blessing 7

Good people in the world. I have been worrying lately about the sick world we live in and how I am going to protect my children from it. Yesterday I read two VERY different publications. I picked up City Weekly, a very liberal SLC newspaper that takes every opportunity to Mormon-bash. But it has great reviews of movies, music, and books. And then I was reading the Ensign, an LDS church magazine. I guess it was the contrast of these that got my mind working. I started stewing and fretting (I tell myself this is a waste of time because things will happen regardless and I won't be able to change them). But I couldn't get my mind off all the horrible people in the world. How the world makes bad things look good and good things look bad. How there are a million inviting temptations to lead people away from being good and having integrity. Why do some people have such a hard time resisting and others can turn their noses up? Its not just what you've been taught as a child because you see amazing parents with really screwed up kids all the time. And its not just what you are exposed to. People that are exposed over and over again can resist over and over again.

Then last night, as I was returning a redbox movie, I drove past a little church with a big cross on the front and looked into the brightly lit room and saw a small group of people standing in a circle praying. And a small ray of hope entered my heart that there are still good people in the world. I came home and told my husband my worries about how no matter how much we love our kids and how much we teach them, there are no guarantees. And his answer was that we need to start with a strong marriage and then just do what we know is right. What a good man : ) So while Quinn is still under my protective wing, I am going to try not to worry and work on building a strong marriage.