Shannon’s SCW Blog

Honestly, if one more woman tells me that she has read one of my books, yet STILL “wandered” into a co-ed chatroom… where she “just happened to meet this guy”… and they “started connecting more and more”… and now she can’t get him out of her mind… and she’s thinking of leaving her husband… I’M SWEAR I’M GOING TO SCREAM!  NO, better yet, I’m going to give HER a big ol’ spiritual spanking!  In fact, let me just give you one right now as preventative medicine.  Go to this link, and read this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/02/18/social.networks/

Think about it.  If your husband said, “Gee, honey, I don’t know how it happened, but I wandered into this hotel room… and there was this girl there… and some stuff just started happening…  You’d be furious, right?  Bewildered?  Betrayed?  Of course you would.

And men who are hard at work earning a living for his wife and family only to find out that she’s been spending her free time dabbling in some internet chatroom with some smooth talking Joe Schmoe who supposedly understands her and treats her so much better than he does, well, he has every right to feel furious, bewildered, and betrayed too.

You may say, “But we were only talking!  That’s not as bad as getting physical.”  Don’t kid yourself.  A woman is most aroused by what she HEARS, and when he whispers those sweet nothings in cyberspace, a girl usually goes weak in the knees.  You’re no exception to that physiological rule, girlfriend.

So Ladies, please don’t stick your head in the lion’s mouth and then pray, “Oh Lord, save me from the lions!!!”  How about just not going into the lion’s den altogether?  Keep your cyber interactions very public, and never wander off into any type of one-on-one communication with even the tamest of “lions.”  Instead, meditate on Proverbs 4:23, “Above all else, GUARD YOUR HEART, for it is the wellspring of life!”

Wishing you a guarded heart and emotional faithfulness in your marriage,

Shannon