Issues

I like researching the 1900's era. So much happened during those years it is just barely possible to fit them all on a timeline.

Those were fast-moving times for slow moving people. Train , boats, automobiles, planes all sorts of modes of travel either were in use, or came into use in that time frame.

In conversations people have lamented our lazy era of today in contrast to the lifestyles of years ago. We must be cautious that we don't idolize those by gone days, but I too enjoy the style and grace of those times; their clothing and customs.

We as people seem to move faster, but we aren't moving better. Some of the issues of our times are education, corruption, and civility.

In watching Simon Sinek speak on the problems of the millennials one statement he made more than once was, 'they've been dealt a bad hand'. Through no fault of their own, they were dealt a bad hand.

Number one problem causing item? Failed parenting. Two things that stick with me is 'they were told they were special' all the time, they received participation trophies, and they could have anything they wanted.

Of course in the real world none of those things are real. I tried to paste in the video from Simon Sinek and millennials. I'm not sure what happened, but here is what came up, and I can't seem to convince it to add the video here. So I trust this link will take you to Simon Sinek on the millennials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU

We have to take responsibility for our lives. Failed parenting is all around us. It hasn't just failed in one generation. The sad fact is it is just as bad today as with the millennial generation. Somewhere we started losing the pattern for good parenting piece by piece.

Where will we be in ten years? Fifteen years? There is a need to be kneeling in prayer and asking for Divine direction here.

Twenty-five years ago more or less, our last child was born. A friend of mine who was about ten years older was bragging about taking her grandchildren to church. She had to have distractions for them so they would sit still and etc.

"We can't raise our grandchildren like we did our children...grandchildren, they're different."

This caused me to wonder. I wondered did the genetic code go awry? Their DNA suddenly changed? Why would they be 'different' than a child of another age?

Of course they aren't different. How—words fail me, that's all I can say. The children aren't different, we are, and that's by choice, and not necessarily is it good.

If you were to kidnap a child born today in November, 2018 and time travel back to any other era and raise that child in that era would he be the same as people around him or different?

We set about to raise our last child the same as the first child. Of course we had learned some better ways. Of course we changed some things, but the basic principles of right, wrong, good, and evil remained the same.

He still had to learn to sit still and be quiet in church without doodads, toys, or food. He survived, and so did we. The better things we learned did make a difference for us and him.

Time marches on and I wish there were some way to help others so they don't make as many mistakes. But that isn't going to happen, so like Cassandra in Helen of Troy we watch others blunder along, but that's the way we are. Whether we like it or not.

Isaiah 40:6 "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7) The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

8) The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."