My Grand daughter and I were going shopping for clothes the other day and she showed up wearing shorts, ragged at the bottom and not too much  of a blouse. I thought of telling her she shouldn’t go out shopping that way but I held my tongue. We went first to a thrift store where I thought she would get more for her money. We went up and down the aisles a young girl just entering her teens would like. She really didn’t look at the clothes that were there at all.

I said “You don’t like looking at clothes here at all, do you”

It took awhile but soon she answered, “No, I guess not.”

I looked at her ragged shorts and a top which didn’t have enough material in it but I didn’t say anything and we went to a department store. It didn’t take too long until she came back carrying ragged shorts and tops just about like what she was wearing except she had a pair of sensible shoes in her arms too! What was amazing to me was the young girls in that store were wearing much the same clothes as my grand daughter! They looked so much alike!  And the cost of the outfit she bought would have been much less at that thrift store. In fact, I saw a top just like the one she bought at the thrift store!

The reason I’m writing this blog is I’m worried about all these girls. There isn’t much to the outfits they go out of their homes with and there are men looking at them. Some of them just might do more than just look! I was a young girl once and I wore a skirt much longer than my knees and a blouse with sleeves and was tucked down in my skirt.And I thought I looked real nice. However, I had just another “Boy, things have changed” moment.

As my grand daughter and I, an old women of 90, left the store, we loved each other and we were happy we went shopping together.  “Let’s go for an ice cream, grandma.” she said. That sounded good to me too. Some things don’t change after all, I thought, as we walked hand to hand to the ice cream store.

Do you ever wish you could go back In time where there weren’t any computers, Internet, cell phones or even television? I do, there are many more things I’d like to return to.

There was no abortion in the 30’s or 40’s. Oh there were a few girls who went in a dark valley with a clothes hanger but, compared to today, there wasn’t any abortions. I sometimes wonder if we aren’t any better than the ancient people who offered their first-born child to one of their gods. God didn’t like that at all and I am sure he doesn’t like our abortion

He wouldn’t like the fact that we took his word, the Bible out of the schools either. I still have the picture in my mind of a girl reading the Bible in the class free time. She was harshly scolded by her teacher and kicked out of school! Prayer is not legal in school either! Although I don’t think that should be named at all because you can talk to God any time and silent too. There was none of that in the 30’s or 40’s. In fact, when I went to school the teacher opened each day with a Bible verse. We sang Christian songs too. And  we always had Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus in picture form. Our Christmas program always had Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesus and shepherds and wisemen on stage. We girls all wanted to be in the play as Mary. We were allowed to leave school for an hour each week so our preacher could instruct us. That surely would not be legal now, would it?

The word ‘gay’ meant that we were happy and gay! Now we never hear that word used that way and it is sad. I don’t know why the homosexuals had to use that word either. Now, they can get married! That destroys marriage the way he ordained it.

Another phrase we shouldn’t use these days is “Merry Christmas”. Instead we are to use “Happy Holidays”. Yet, the day is Christs- Mass and we mark time with “2016, BC” Before Christ!

Our world is crazy, isn’t it? Why did all these things happen? Well, because we christians didn’t stand up and make sure that things will not change. After all, this nation was dedicated to God when it began. Maybe we should stand up again to change our world back again.  Wouldn’t that be nice?