"Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart."
Purity doesn't seem to be in vogue these days, but let me tell you what a father told his daughter one day. She wrote him while away at college: "Dear Dad, My classmates make promiscurity sound so natural and so inevitable. There are times when I wonder what I am waiting for."
Her father wrote her back: "You are waiting to be free from the nagging voice of conscience and from the gray shadow of guilt, free to give all of yourself, not a panicky fraction. Some deep instinct in you knows what tremendous influence your first complete union will be. And that same instinct keeps telling you not to waste it."
Oh, how I wish more families were open enough to discuss this issue and to encourage young people to remain pure.
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