purity- ONCE

we wish we were , we prefer people who are, we live our lives pretending we are, we condemn other people if they somehow say they are not. We really ought to be atleast to a certain stage of our lives we all need to be pure. To every individual the very thought of innocence means a child beyond that one can not be innocent. Perhaps when one is old enough to get certain urges whether or not they act on it, their innocence is somehow polluted perhaps they are not pure anymore. A case in which we say atleast to pre-teens their innocense is somewhat compromised. Something a lot of us would really rather not think about. A friend approaching his 30s told me as a teenager he spent more time in the bathroom than any other room in the house but by his 20s either he could get a stand for his bathroom activity or he could control it better. The now because he believes he has found someone he completely adores he feels like his teenage years both the excitement and the bathroom activity since the person is far away. Are we then saying that our impurities root from the same portal for all of us? If there is something all humans have incommon with a few exceptions is that we have certain urges that we have a tendency to respond with urgency to without ackwnoledging that these urges are sometimes aggrevated by things outside us. Which means while we say what we feel is natural we have to imagine what has provoked those thoughts then stop the idea. A lot of you are probably saying, "Where on earth do you come from?". With risk of being deemed as the pretender I have to run this by you because like a lot of people who were with me through this, it touched me. "ONCE" A very touching sermon followed this word. What it basically said was that, one may will be tempted once what is to follow is their own doing. And that very one time should one give into it. Horror may follow. for example; it only takes "once" to lose your innocence. It only takes "once" to get a deadly disease. It takes "once" to consume deadly substances. One is tempted once giving into it means the repucutions that are to follow will be the result of "once". Imagining how many once each of us has done, means our lives arent pure are hearts still long for the joy of the world. We are conviced that a better car, a better house a better job will make us happy but really the joy of the heart is the fulfillement of the soul, which comes about only if you purify your soul and make it clean. Not by pretex but my being true to yourself. We all need this lesson, baby steps from now on will give us purity eventually. remember ....only "ONCE".