I'm sitting here reading through various blogs that I subscribe to and working on a logo for a new website I'm working on. My mom has Headline News on in the background. They're currently talking about Edward's affair.

First, off, what a creep! I mean, seriously, he was cheating on his wife who was battling cancer and promising his mistress that he'd marry her after his wife died. Creep. What in the world is the mistress thinking? Doesn't she realize that a guy who is willing to cheat on his wife to be with her won't probably think twice about cheating on her if they get married? Stupidity on both sides.

Anyway, this celebrity focus section of HLN came on and it was saying things like "TV has nothing on real life! This affair is so much more juicy than anything Hollywood can come up with!" They then go on to tell all the gory details. They then compare Edwards' affair to current TV dramas. As they go into all the details of reality and fiction (both having to do with affairs), I just got this terrible feeling that they were glorifying affairs.

It wasn't presented in a negative light (to HLN's credit, now that the normal broadcast is back on, I'm hearing more negative about Edwards) - it almost seemed like they were applauding Edwards' lack of morals (and even beyond morals is simply any compassion he might have had on his wife battling cancer). Disgusting.

I don't want to legislate morality, because I think that's going about things the wrong way. I do want to see change, though. I don't want to live in a society that glorifies affairs, divorce, abortion, etc. I don't want it to be normal and I don't want it to be approved. Yet, I want to find creative ways to make a difference - to change the status quo.

I will not sit back and become resigned to the way our society is. I will not sit back while we let thousands die of hunger each day. I will not sit back while politicians and celebrities are teaching children that it's okay to cheat on your spouse and have sex with whoever you feel like. I will not sit back while we become more and more individualistic and focused on ourselves.

It's just a matter of figuring out how to go about doing something. I don't want to do things the way that evangelicals have been doing things the past several years - because it's not working and I don't think it's a good Biblical model of how things should be done. Jesus changed the world from the bottom up (not the top down) - He didn't go to Caesar and convert him and declare that the whole nation needs to change. He went to the fishermen and the tax collectors and showed them a better way. He changed their hearts - and sent them out to spread the good news of the New Kingdom.

Send me out, Jesus. Send me out to the people in my community - or to the ends of the world. Give me the words to say to tell them of the good news of this upside Kingdom. Give me compassion and love and the wisdom to stand up for what is right without condemnation. Keep me humble, Lord, and as you change me into your likeness, please use me to change this world - from the bottom up.