Pumpkin pie
And candle light
Things that go
Bump in the night

Golden sun

and Northern wind

Leaves that fall

In the autumn blend. 

leaves are falling

all to the ground

can't help seeing

when you walk around

THIS IS ME RESPONDING TO SOMEONE SAYING BAD THINGS ABOUT THE ARTICLE I POSTED. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK?

[i think the person who wrote this article has never seen this verse:
"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever."
~ 1 John 2:15-17]

I think you have to consider what John means by the world in the first part of the scipture here when he says "Do not love the world or anything in the world". This means worldly things or things that serve the world. It doesn't mean that we are not to love the beautiful creations of the Lord. Afterall, "Joh 3:16 God loved the world this way: He gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life." - God's Word translation. God loved the world THIS way. Meaning not the "ways of the world" cares about the world, but his ways in caring about the world. This piece of scripture from 1 John is true, of course, and I do follow this. I am not loving the worlds ways by listening to music. I am loving the worlds ways if I allow myself to be twisted by the ideas portrayed in the music. (The most common ideas of the world that pop out of "secular" things are the ideas that money is something to be loved, lustly love is something to be desired, places of power are things to be attainted, and fame is something of importance. These things are also advertized in movies, television, and internet. Not at this site. I do not follow these ways or ideas advertized by the things of the world.) If I am truly following the Lord I wouldn't be interested in certain music in the first place. This is up to the individual to decide what they should and shouldn't be interested in as Christians. I don't think Eminem would be good for me to listen to. It might actually not effect others. Its something dangerous for me. Its like some people can sit and have a few beers, but a recovering alcoholic cannot. But I don't see anything wrong with me listening to the band named H.I.M. or even if I want to watch South Park. Any Christian can't judge me for it either. (Matt 7) If you claim you don't listen to secular music, then why would you do anything at all. Movies, television, radio, and just plain walking out of your house to go to work; you experience things around you that do not glorify God. You choose to function like a normal human being that leaves the house, goes to work, and is surrounded by the things of this world that do not glorify God. Should a true Christian be locking him/herself up in a box with a Bible and prayer cards? Would that be truly following Christ? I don't think so. This is not what God desires for us. We should not follow the ways of the world but we are in the world just as Jesus was. Jesus went out to meet the sinners in their own world and on their own level. Think about it. Jesus was completely sinless, but surrounded himself with sinners and he still followed the ways of the Lord God and the Heavenly Father. Could you imagine if Jesus would have said he wouldn't come live as a human and save us from our sins through his sacrifice because the secular spirit of the world would have hindered him to the ways of the world? Jesus was bold and knew he was founded in the Lord God and would not be affected by Satans temptations of the world. He recognized the beauty in us, even though we were sinners! Get it! I can listen to music that would be considered "secular" and still seek the Lord. Music is a blessing. A person that was born with a love and appreciation of all music or music in general would be wrong for exploring the dark territories where music can take us? (Speaking about the notes only, not lyrics.....but even so.....a person that was born ((or blessed, I should say)) with a love, appreciation, or talent for poetry is restricted to only happy poems about gardens, birds chirping and loving God? No. Life is sometimes dark with heavy emotion. Music and the arts are expressions of that human emotion.