So I mostly use humor in my usual posts choosing to sidestep serious issues as they are less entertaining to read about. That and humor makes a lot of the bad things better with the added bonus of being able to vent out frustrations without hurting anyone.
I’m a lot like Jonah (as in Jonah and the whale). I think once someone does something really evil, then they shouldn’t have the chance to be forgiven. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact the atonement was meant for pedophiles as well as me. I’m also a fan of the death penalty, but I think we should kill all sorts of people we don’t, sexual and childhood abusers being the top 2. Why give someone the opportunity to “live” a normal life by putting them back into society after serving their time, when the likelihood is they’ll sin again and destroy more lives.
I wake in the middle of the night far too frequently and worry about the lives of children today. I worry about child sex slaves and child soldiers. I worry about the orphans who are the lucky ones who get beaten on a daily basis and become 2nd class citizen. I worry about childhood obesity and greed in America’s minors. How on earth are we going to have this world be a better place when we let the atrocities that happen to today’s children happen? What am I going to do?
The last question being said one of two ways, either as a call to action for myself or as complacency in my inability to do nothing. I mean really I feel as though my life is busy, busy, busy and have no time, at the same time my life is so busy I can’t even work on helping a child?
Did anyone ever see the movie Simon Birch, where Simon Birch always says God had a plan specifically for him to help others, I’ve always felt like that. Like I’m meant to really make a difference, not just be 1 of the billions that do nothing but live their lives and then die. Sometimes we dream about going somewhere and actually helping others, but in reality is it ever going to happen, probably not. We’re far to materialistic and greedy. Steven said a few weeks ago that Americans had set the standard of living too high, that humans were never meant to live the way we do. I had never thought about it like that, I figured this was the way it was suppose to be and everyone else was sorry out of luck, but what if he’s right.
Anyways my post isn’t really a call to action, I have no answers. I just wish God would get a little Sodom and Gomorrah on a few people, oh and the government would stop paying farmers not to plant crops, oh and adoption wasn’t so expensive, oh and the death penalty, I am really serious about that.
There may not be much we can do about some things (not that we shouldn’t be ready if an opportunity to do something did come up) but I have to tell you that you DO do so much to help others all the time. I’m not even talking about all you do for your own kids, raising them well and giving them your time and attention and teaching them to make good choices. That’s huge alreaady. But aside from all the horrible things that happen to children and all the bad things that people do, there are hundreds and thousands of kids out there who suffer because they are sick. And you know that I know what I’m talking about when I say that the doctors and nurses who care for those kids mean the world to them and their families. It’s no small thing to do what you do, and I’m sure there are many families who will never forget the role you play(ed) in their lives.
I liked this post.. I know exactly how you feel.
Maria (you took the instructions off too quickly – if you email me, I will save how to do the umlaut), I do believe that not only are you called to make a difference, but you DO make a difference! You are on the frontlines with children in need every day, and I know that both you and Steven will go on to leave your mark on the world. Your views are refreshing after listening to too many egocentric people who think they are here just for the purpose of accumulating things. Your children are very fortunate to have you and Steven as parents, and I hope they value your feelings on these topics . . . like you, I am a Mom who loses sleep thinking about what is happening to the innocent around the world. We should all do our part to make a change.
the first time I experienced a lockdown drill in school, I was literally sick to my stomach that this has become a staple just like fire and tornado drills. The school I worked at from January to May had several lockdowns (not drills) because of the neighborhood we were in. The students in this school (all pre-k) really had sad lifes. They had probably seen more in their little lifetimes that I have in my long one.
Prisons should become more of a place where rights are completely taken away and more chain gangs are doing hard physical labor for most of the day. Now there is television, state of art gyms, libraries, etc. There is really no punishment.