"Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life." (Prov. 4:23)

A teenage girl walked into the kitchen and asked her mother, "Can I go to an adult movie with my friends tonight?" She pleaded, "Their parents let them go, and if they can go, why can't I go?" Her mother was preparing a salad for the evening meal, and as she said, "Yes, you can go," she took a handful of pealings and cuttings from the vegetables and threw them into the salad. Her daughter said excitedly, "Mother, why did you do that?" She answered, "I thought if you didn't care about garbage in your mind, you wouldn't object to a little garbage in you stomach!" As the teenager carefully picked the refuse out of the salad, she said, "I think I'll tell my friends that I'll stay home tonight."