Lately I have been thinking about the turn of the 20th century...
Even though there were rough times, bootlegging, mobs, the Depression, it just doesn't seem to me with what I have read in history books that times back then were as dysfunctional as they are today.
Everyone is so mean...so judgmental...
Kids bully, get aggressive, mean spirited, and bold...isn't being a kid....a teenager hard enough?
Adults...get road rage, shoot someone who ticks them off, feels entitlement...what kind of examples are they?
Politicians...forgot that they "work for the people" not the other way around. They want to take GOD out of everything. They have forgotten the Constitution and what our forefathers stood for.
I hate to watch the news anymore...there are murders, home invasions, mistreatment of animals/children...oh don't get me started there.
Ok...get me started...
I get sick...sick to my stomach when I see photos of abused animals. They can't defend themselves. My heart cries out and I love my pups all the more. Is that possible that people are that cruel?
Animals are loyal...gentle souls...great companions.
Kids are innocent, funny, awesome. Listen to them and hear what they say and look at everything from a child's perspective. It is amazing how they interpret things.
Kids and animals should be able to walk down the road (together) without fear. Adults should be able to handle disputes in a friendly fashion.
Our children should say the Pledge of Allegiance, be able to pray openly, play Red Rover Come Over, Tag...all those fun childhood games, but no one is there to teach them. They need to be innocent children for as long as possible.
Life should be like Mayberry.
Sometimes progress isn't really progress.
This week our church has 70 hours of prayer, I went today...I prayed for this country, I prayed for our politicians, I prayed for our military, I prayed for my family, I prayed for some specific things and I also prayed for our new preacher, our youth minister and our children's minister for they are guiding our children...the future adults of tomorrow.
Whether you agree with me or not doesn't matter, these are my feelings, this is my blog and living here in this great country of America, let's me have freedom of speech. For this I am grateful.
6 comments:
I agree with you. We do live in a different time now. Some of it is better and some of it is not. I guess we have to take the good with the bad. I think part of the problem too is such widespread technology. We now know everything going on around us to the minute of it happening. In the olden days, ignorance was bliss I guess!
Hi Cheri! I feel the same. In fact I'm trying to stay away from the news and facebook. It can all be too much sometimes. I'm trying to get lost in books...that's my therapy. Anyway, I follow Bill Gates on Twitter and he recommends books all the time. Here is one book review where Gates interviews the author. It made me feel a little better about humanity.
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/A-Conversation-With-Steven-Pinker-Has-the-World-Become-More-or-Less-Violent-over-Time
Hi Cheri! I feel the same. In fact I'm trying to stay away from the news and facebook. It can all be too much sometimes. I'm trying to get lost in books...that's my therapy. Anyway, I follow Bill Gates on Twitter and he recommends books all the time. Here is one book review where Gates interviewed the author. It made me feel a little better about humanity.
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/A-Conversation-With-Steven-Pinker-Has-the-World-Become-More-or-Less-Violent-over-Time
Cheri - you know for sure that I agree with you. I pray all the time too. I just don't know where it will all end. BUT GOD DOES and I trust him.
Amen to everything you said!
vail
i'm right there with you. i have to stop myself because i get so overwhelmed with these things and what the future will look like for my children and my grandchildren. something has to happen. something will happen. i talk to my children all the time about how they HAVE to learn but they get to CHOOSE how; the hard way or the easy way. obedience out of LOVE! submission out of LOVE! looking to the interests of OTHERS and not just ourselves!!! if we could just choose love instead of self all these problems would go away!!!! we are an incredibly selfish world and i fear that the selfishness paired with all the technilogical advances is leading to disaster. hahaha! you got me started! ;) i'll stop now. but you aren't alone in these thoughts. God is in control and we just have to love and pray....
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