[Biblemat] A) THE SOBERING QUESTIONS OF OUR YOUTH

[J5827Sasser at wmconnect.com]

Brethren and Friends, Jim Sasser here.  A very good Thursday
morning to each and everyone.  May God bless you and yours.
Here is an article from my ancient files:

THE SOBERING QUESTIONS OF OUR YOUTH

     These questions don't represent only me but a whole gen-
eration that is struggling to grow up and make sense of this
world.

     "Why did most of you lie when you made the vow of 'til
death do us part?"

     "Why do you fool yourselves into believing that divorce 
really is better for the kids in the long run?"

     "Why do so many of you divorced parents spend more time with your new 
boyfriend or girlfriend than with your own
children?"

     "Why did you ever fall victim to the notion that kids are just as well 
off being raised by a complete stranger at a day
care center than by their own mother or father?"

     "Why do you look down on parents who decide to quit work and stay home 
to rear their children?"

     "Why does the television do the most talking at the family
meals?"

     "Why is work more important than your own family?"

     "Why is money regarded as more important than relation-
ships?"

     "Why is 'quality time' generally no longer than a five or ten
minute conversation each day?"

     "Why do you try to make up for the lack of time you spend
with us by giving us more and more material objects that we
really don't need?"

     "Why does your work (in the form of a cell phone, laptop
computer, etc.) always come with us on vacations?"

     "Why have you neglected to teach us values and morals?"

     "Why haven't you lived good moral lives that we could
model our own after?"

     "Why isn't religion one of the most important words in our
household?"

     "Why do you play God when it comes to abortion?"

     "Why don't you have enough faith in us to teach us abstin-
ence rather than safe sex?"

     "Why do you allow us to watch violent movies but expect
us to maintain some type of childlike innocence?"

     "Why do you allow us to spend unlimited amounts of time
on the Internet but still are shocked about our knowledge of 
how to build bombs?"

     "Why are you so afraid to tell us 'no' sometimes?"

     "Why is it so hard for you to realize that school shootings
and other violent juvenile behavior, result from a lack of your
attention more than anything else?"

     These questions should, and will, be asked of the generat-
ions that have failed us.  You have pursued your selfish desir-
es for years, but now is the time to reap what you have sown.

------------ By Marcy Musgrave, a junior at Texas A&M.   </HTML>
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