Pray for US Parents
After taking some unexpected and forced time off, I will be picking up our series on women in the early Christian church again soon. The next person we will study is Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist. If you want to read up on Elizabeth before the post, see Luke 1:5-80.
On to the prayer. You have surely seen the news by now that Northern Illinois University was the victim of another shooting rampage yesterday. 6 people including the gunman are dead, and another 22 wounded. Please keep these families, the University, and the students in your prayers as they begin the task of trying to make sense of this tragedy.
As more and more of these violent rampages occur, it is obvious that something must be done. I see these incidents as a reflection of America’s crumbling social conscience. There must be an answer, or answers, but the issues are so complex and hotly debated that, as yet, no one appears to have recommended any truly viable solutions. One solution is absolutely clear, though. Parenting.
The parents in the United States need to make a committment to their children and to raising the next generation to be better than this last. So my appeal to you is to pray for America’s parents. Fathers who have abandoned their children, mothers who are allowing careers to overshadow their children, the grandmothers and aunts and uncles who are raising the kids of relatives because the parents are unfit; until children become the most precious commodity in the United States, our society will continue to disintegrate into a nation of egotistical, self-centered, maladjusted individuals whose number one goal in life is money and a materialistic lifestyle. We MUST make changes. And at this point, the problems are so spread out over such a vast range of societal infrastructure, that only God is going to be able to sort this one out.
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February 18th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Sent a copy of this post to my sister and BIL they are raising a 15yr old and their son is in college they are in Canada.