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It seems like God did a lot of good work through you!
Your story reminds me of that of a close relative of mine who endured the late 1960s and early 1970s and was not a hippie; she was protected from the counter-culture by her innocence and virtue. And she has since become a fountain of holiness and divine love in our family.
Yes He did.
We were indoctrinated about excess in our formative years in school. We saw films about Woodstock, the hippie movement. Every month we watched a couple and by the end of the year we'd covered a lot. I wasn't attracted to that lifestyle and always felt it would shame my family and compel me to do horrible things. We drank alcohol but that was it. I saw the downside of going beyond it.
I remember visiting an acquaintance in my late teens and they were doing laundry in the bathtub because they spent the money on marijuana. I was so dumbfounded by their stupidity and reminded them they wouldn't dry in time before their mother got home. I didn't offer to help and left.
I learned a long time ago that people rub off on you and there's things I don't want to be around. Character and ethics are really important. I'm not the kind of person who'll befriend someone cheating on their spouse or doing underhanded stuff. I can't co-sign it and it's tainting me.
That restricts my connections to some degree but it reinforces virtue. When people are making a genuine effort to love the Lord and live honorably it makes a difference.
~bella
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