Triggers and Traps: The Tempting Situation
As I write this post on preparing for and resisting The Tempting Situation, I am sitting in a Starbucks drinking my customary Grande Bold Coffee, black.
Here is what I can tell you based on this one morning in Starbucks: For those of us who are trying to live a porn-free life, or who are trying to maintain a porn-free life, temptations abound, and they are everywhere.
We will, at some point, be tempted or face a Tempting Situation, in which our desires to click on a porn link or website will be tugged and cajoled – many times more than once a day.
Often, more than once an hour.
Yes. If you’ve battled the soul-wrenching beast of porn addiction, you know exactly what I’m talking about!
Facing temptations, or the Tempting Situation, is a reality with which we must all come to grips.
The irony of writing this post – about resisting the Tempting Situation – in a trendy Starbucks, is that I am going to suggest we consider a picture from an ancient writer, Homer, to help us prepare for and resist temptation.