just because

One of the first things our parents have to teach us as young children is that we are not allowed to tell a lie. They push this over and over again. The younger we were the more obvious the lie is. They might ask you if you ate a cookie when you knew you weren't supposed to. You obviously did as there are crumbs all over your face but you tell them you didn’t. As you get older you get more sneaky and smart with your lies. You get better at hiding things. This is when if we have a disciplined conscience it will kick in and make us feel bad for lying. However, as we grow older, lies are still not taken away from our lives. We may not deal with lying in a way that we did as a child but instead we have lies bombarded at us from the biggest deceiver ever. Satan has had years and years of practice in lying. Satan is good at it. Satan can get us to believe all kinds of things. It is important we catch these lies being fed to us when they are young or else we will quickly not notice w...

From the minute we entered this earth we began demanding things for ourselves. We wanted food, we wanted attention, we wanted mom. We began to get a bit bigger and we wanted toys, we still wanted food and we wanted to not go to bed. We hit our teen years and we wanted a cell phone as good as our friends, we wanted a car, we wanted this gadget and that big person's toy. How easy it is for us to want things! We feel we have a right to be happy. What makes us happy? More things, more attention, more love, more free time, more me time, more, more, more! So easy it is for us to live a selfish life. A life where we think mainly of ourselves and very little of others. When we think about why this comes so easy it is no surprise that it does. Because this is something we are born with, our parents will desperately try to train out of us, but due to the large push from society around it is impossible to completely erase from a person's life. Society pushes nothing but self. We now ...