More Than Enough

          

Back in the 1930's a high school diploma wasn't looked at as a necessity, especially for young women. It was more important to be intelligent and a good worker. My mother was both, so when she had a problem with algebra in eighth grade she dropped out of school. After that she took several different jobs. At seventeen she worked at one of the 'War plants, or Ordnance plants'. In her early twenties she married a man several years her senior—my sister's father, divorced him and married my father. Likewise she divorced him and married the third husband—twice. None of them 'worked out', and when she was approximately thirty years old she found herself as a single mother with two children.

What happened? A single mother with children has become normal for this generation, but it wasn't normal for that generation. How did this happen? In my younger years I believed that each generation became more immoral than the previous. Or that previous generations had been more Godly and religious, only becoming more morally lax as time went by. This isn't the truth, sin and it's consequences are a part of human nature. I believe the difference in older generations was the bounds that society placed upon it. Immoral behavior wasn't as accepted in previous generations because more people still held a form of respect or fear for Biblical authority .

We can blame different factors such as film makers of Silent films and 'talkies'. We could blame the loosening of morals on the Roaring Twenties. These things did have an effect upon society and worked to the undermining of the fabric of society. However, sickness doesn't affect a healthy body.

So, what happened?

Ye are of your father the devil... When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. 

(John 8:44 ASV)

Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. (Ecclesiastes 7:29 ASV)

Hallelujah! What a Savior!