People are often complaining about the state of affairs. They complain about the economy. They complain about healthcare. They complain about Social Security, government spending, crooked politicians, and escalating crime. These are just a few of the complaints. The problem is that they are pointing the finger in the wrong direction. Instead of pointing the finger at politicians and government leaders, they should be pointing the finger at themselves. That’s right. The reason the things are the way they are is because of us, the American people and the Church.
Both the American people and the Church are responsible for the state of affairs. In 1963 the Supreme Court declared that prayer in school was unconstitutional (which is a lie). The American people did not protest. The church did not protest. Had they done so, there would be prayer in school today. Our country is based on the principle: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.” This means that the people say what laws are passed and what those laws mean. If there is any question about it, then they have Congress to pass laws that address or remove any ambiguity. When prayer was banned from public schools in 1963, our nation took a turning point.
Abraham Lincoln is believed to have said: “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” When prayer and the Bible were banned from public schools, this nation began raising a generation of people who did not know God. These people grew up to become leaders in government and finance. Disaster is inevitable when these godless people made godless decisions based on godless principles.
Look at our streets. They are filled with children and youth wondering around aimlessly, like sheep without a shepherd. Look in our prisons. They are overcrowded, filled with young men and women, primarily of minority descent, who never stood a chance because they were raised primarily by godless parents who left them to their own devises and the mercies of the streets. Many, if not most, of our young women are pregnant or single parents with no fathers in the picture.
None of this is what God intended for us. He wanted us to be positive influences on our children and the children around us. Parents, along with teachers, are the greatest influences a child can have. It is no cliché that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. It is an opportunity to shape a life, an opportunity many parents throw away. Children are a blessing from God, but they are also a responsibility, as well. Unfortunately, too many parents delegate the responsibility of rearing, shaping, and influencing their children to the teacher, the preacher, and the television. Because we have not sown into the lives of our children, we are reaping a lost generation—a generation of godless people who will make more godless decisions based on godless standards.
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The unabashed ingredient to a fertile mind is why. The pure and innocent spirit of a child does not apologize for asking why, they just ask. The absorbency of a child’s mind takes life in at full force soaking up their surroundings to become what they live. Their mind is like a garden, the very well spring of life. Intellectual nourishment can instills a life time of navigational attitudes that allows them the right of passage as they have come to know it through their indoctrination, which in turns creates attitudes and memories good or bad. The child’s point of reference becomes the wall in which they cannot pass. This point of reference stops at the age of indoctrination. It is the curiosity of a child that keeps pushing that point of reference forward in order to take in as much as they can. Life has much to offer and a child wants to know why to understand how it is so. As they have said many, many times before, a child learns what they live. So the question remains, “who have you created.” The preceding article rings true as we sit in our chairs complaining that someone should do something. Well shouldn’t you? When you learn to love yourself you will know how to love others. As it also has been said, love your neighbor as you love yourself. This is a statement of self-reflection and only fear will keep you at bay from truly venturing in to resolve the conflict within. Fear is the acronym for False Evidence Appearing Rear. When we understand that we are in control we can learn to be kind to ourselves and not allow fear to control us any longer. And so the child that needs to be loved today first and foremost is you because you’re worth it. Change starts with us then we can change the world. Complain no more.
M2, Thank you for your comment. You are the first to comment on my blog. I do agree with you that a person must first and foremost love themselves for it is the only way that change can come. The thing we must do is help instill this self love. This does not come by abandoning and abusing then nor by shortchanging them with sugar-coated religious and water-downed education systems.
M2, Thank you for your comment. You are the first to comment on my blog. I do agree with you that a person must first and foremost love themselves for it is the only way that change can come. The thing we must do is help instill this self love. This does not come by abandoning and abusing then nor by shortchanging them with sugar-coated religious and water-downed education systems.
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