The Zombies ate my blog post...

The last thing any of us ever want to be as Christians is somebody who is too uptight to have a good time.  I know, when a friend of mine was saved, that was one of the concerns - that all of the sudden they would turn into this different person, who never did anything fun, or watched fun movies, or listened to fun music - basically that your life becomes praying and going to church, and little else.

I can say from my own personal experience, there is a lot of grace in being saved.  (Was that the understatement of the year, or what?!?!)  But basically, here's how it has worked.  I do not do the things I used to do because anyone in the church TELLS ME I cannot.  In fact, most of the things from my former life that I don't do any longer are not even things that the Bible specifically forbids (except for bad language!). Honestly, since I have been saved, a lot of the desire to DO those things that would not be pleasing to God are just....gone.  I don't WANT to do them.  It's not that I'm trying to earn my way to heaven through good behavior - nothing like that.  I just don't have any desire - no pull - to do those old things.

So here's the rub.  This past weekend, there was a Zombie Walk in an old part of our town.  The Zombie Walk is an event where people dress up like Zombies, and then go parading through the streets in this particular area, and somehow, they raise money for charity in doing so.  In the past, the Zombie walk has been a cool event that my husband and kids actually had fun doing.  We liked zombie movies, and this was just a natural extension of that fun talk we would have about how we'd survive the zombie apocalypse.

This year, my second-oldest was actually even invited to go to the ZW with one of her leaders from church.

All good, right?

Well, to be honest...it's not!  It's one of those things from my past that while I did enjoy it once upon a time, now it just gives me that sick, slightly anxious feeling of things that I just don't have any desire to be a part of anymore.  Now, it really isn't my place to judge the activity of other people within the church, and we all tend to view things like this as - if you feel the freedom from God to participate in a particular activity - you are not convicted to do otherwise - then go ahead.

The problem there is, my teenagers (and younger children) aren't fully formed, and what *I* feel convicted on, they get via the trickle down theory.  So - much to my daughter's dismay, we nixed participation this year.

At the same time, my oldest daughter has a friend who really would like to do special effects make-up in movies/theater someday.  I am happy to say, the progress she has made with her technique is impressive.  However - her subject matter (Zombies) left me a little shell-shocked and horrified this year.  She did her make-up and a friend's, and while the ripped open neck was skillful, it was AWFUL.

I just cringe - not wanting to be the killjoy who steals everybody's fun - but I think so much of this is just really the work of Satan dulling our senses to the reality of the horror of hell.  It breaks my heart that this one friend of my daughter's is so completely fully immersed in looking like (and making others look like) the undead.

So, I guess I HAVE become that uncool Christian who can't just have fun with make-up and raise money for charity.  I guess.

But I guess I'm going to have to be ok with that.