OO— Thank you. I love my children so much. And they love America. I am trying so hard to help preserve this country for them while at the same time preparing them for a different reality should things change.
Butter— I’ve been updating a thread for research purposes. I try to reference every thread to it so all Kony stuff is in one place if anyone needs it. Whenifhow started the thread. Here is the link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2856639/posts
That’s the challenge for us as parents. Our oldest will be going to college next year and I find myself wondering if she’ll ever have an opportunity to use what she learns, or if she’ll just do whatever the communist overlords tell her she has to do as one of the cogs in the machine.
We’ve talked with our kids quite a bit about there coming a time when people will wish they were dead, and that if they are asked to deny Christ in order to save their lives they will know that after that point they would wish they were dead if they choose to live on earth rather than go to Heaven.
A person wants to be prepared for whatever might come. I think in the end we just have to trust that the Lord will be enough for whatever situation we’re placed in.
Just now, as I was typing that, my son came in the room. We’re both up early because he has a robotics meet and has to be to school in about 15 minutes to load up the bus and head out. I saw that he was reading what I typed above and I felt sad and guilty that he would know that I have doubts about whether there is a future for him and his siblings. They know I spend a lot of time on “politics” and I’ve tried to tell them it’s because I believe we’re at such a critical time and I want to preserve the country so they can have a future, but I think my younger son is the only one who really gets it. My family of origin doesn’t want to think about it, or at least it seems that way from the one time I tried to communicate the grave situation we’re in. It’s a dividing wedge.
Thanks for the link. I’ll give it a look.