I just got down with a week as a volunteer for Vacation Bible School and it does give me some hope as the 100+ kids who attended all showed the kind of love Christ wants us to have for each other.
Some years ago I watched a vanity news item about a woman who was climbing a famous mountain, can’t remember which just now, may have been in Africa. Anyhoo, during her interview she talked more or less only in terms of what all this meant to her. Even when she mentioned her young child it was like something important to do for her fulfillment, a big check off of her bucket list.
The child, seemingly incidental to what it represented to the woman, was presently doing without its mother and would continue to do without for weeks. I didn’t get that the woman considered her absence even important to her. Also her attitude about the risks of climbing the mountain seemed to not even connect with what her death would mean to the child.
It was disgusting to watch. Enough so that it still stick with me.
Once people commonly understood that children were a gift from the Lord. Now it seems like they are far too often viewed as either burdens or achievements and little more.