ohhhhhhh and i get angry

Today my mom went to clean an elderly woman's home. She was soooooooo kind and her and I sat for awhile and talked about how this nation is becoming more and more corrupt and how we desperately need God (cause old people like to talk about that kinda stuff). It was nice to talk with her and hear her opinions and views on how life is and how life should be. I could tell that she was so disgusted and upset about how this nation that was built "UNDER GOD" is turning out. Its terribly sad that our nation is so corrupt. Talking with her made me realize that people change. As much as we don't want them to, they always do and many times its for the worse. A person becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol...CHANGE! A person who was once so innocent starts dabbling in sexual immortality... CHANGE! And it seems like people are always changing for the worse and in doing so, they're heading in the wrong direction. We can try to stop people from changing for the worse, but many times they aren't going to listen. So what?!?!... we give up, let those people we care so much about destroy their lives? We can't just do that. We can't just sit back and allow those people to head straight on the path of self annihilation. If we love these people SO much, we do we simply give up on them? Why aren't we chasing them, perusing them, praying for them, talking with them, showing them that there is hope in something other than all these corrupt things they are partaking in. We talk amongst our friends and think to ourselves about how much they are changing, but why aren't we DOING anything? We aren't confronting them. Maybe thats why this nation is so corrupt. Maybe thats why statistics say that 19.1 million Americans ages 12 years and older were current users of illicit drugs in the year 2004. (the statistics are drastically increasing). This means that they used an illicit drug at least once within 30 days of being interviewed. Maybe this is why only 63% of teens showed abstinence in the year 2003, the percentage decreased nearly 30% by the year 2007. Maybe if these people's friends actually spoke up, we wouldn't have this problem...