GERMAN YOUTH KILLS 15
USA MAN KILLS 10
March 11th 2009. Today a 17 year old graduate goes back to his
school and kills 9. Then before it is all over kills another 6
before killing himself.
Not the first mass killing in Germany, not too many years ago a
fellow killed 18.
Finland has had two mass killings min the last 10 years.
A man killed 10 down on the Samson area township of Alabama,
including his mother and grandmother. He leaves a message saying
that workers "did him wrong."
About ten years ago a guy in Montreal, walked into the Poly-Tech
campus and killed 14 women - he had it in for women for some
reason.
We've had youths mass killing in schools in the USA in the last
10 years or so.
Other single mass killings have been done by others in North
America over the last 2 or 3 decades.
We've had the serial killers from time to time over the last 100
years, but the frequency of single mass killings by individual
persons, over the last 20 years, has been truly shocking.
Our modern way of life, our secularism, our stressful schools or
working life, our way of living within a world of mounting "peer
pressure," and "bullying" in one form or another. The abuse of
alcohol, the "use" of various drugs by our youth, the raw and
graphic violence in movies and TV serial "cop" shows. The often
generation gap between parents and their children; the way teens
interact with one another; the way some kids are pushed away and
made to feel "outcast" or stupid or worthless. You take all of
this and add to it, the working of the "demon world" and you have
children and youths and adults that SNAP and BLOW UP in horrific
violence.
It is so sad, so sad. Today innocent youths in school, on the
sidewalk, sitting on their back porches, walking along, minding
their own business, getting on with regular life, are dead
because a hard in many ways society (with demonic help) drove someone
to take a gun and kill and kill.
If you have young children, now is the time to teach them real
values. Teach them that life is precious. Teach them to be loving
other children and all people. Teach them they are worth a great
deal to you and to others. Tell them they have gifts and talents,
make sure you see in them the abilities and talents they have and
help bring them out in them, so they can feel they have something
of fine value they can contribute to society as a whole. Take
time for them, love them, do things with them. Tell them we do
not all have to be the same, so our gifts and abilities can be
different. Tell them we do not all have to be great at sports, or
music, or dance, or singing, or math, or algebra, or science, but
we still have many good things to offer the world around us.
Teach them to respect life, all life, animal life to human life.
Teach them to love the nature around them, the beauty of all
life. Teach them self worth, and in so doing, because they have
self worth, they will not be shipwrecked when someone calls them
names, or laughs at them, or even says things like, "you are a
piece of garbage."
You as parents need to really deeply "know" your child. You need
to know their personality, what makes them "tick." Where they can
best excel in general life. You need to be placing them in the
right slot, making sure a square peg goes into a square hole and
a round peg into a round hole. Do not try to live your life
through them and try and force onto them what they have no
interest in or do not have the ability for. Your dream may have
been to be the High School Quarterback, but you did not quit make
it; don't try to force your boy into being what you never were,
he just may never have that ability, and quite frankly he may not
care one nickel about football period!
The interests he/she does have, encourage them in, but remember
they may never be the "star" of the team, but you praise them for
doing the very best they can. If they are the star of the team,
you teach them to be humble, and to thank the Lord for what they
can perform, but they are to remember the others do the best they
can, and so to respect all. And so you teach your star ability
child to encourage those who do the best they can with the
ability they have.
You bring up, guide up, encourage up, those children who are not
above average, even more so for those blow average, be it
academic or sports. And for those above average in any field, you
teach them humility and patience as they rub shoulders with those
of less ability in that area, for that child may have super
ability in another area where your child is average or below.
It is an art today to raise children so they will be balanced,
have self worth, know their greatest strengths and abilities, to
know they are of value, to be humble, to know they have something
good to contribute to people around them.
Our children should be GIVING love, life, joy; they should be
serving and helping others; they should be kind and patient; they
should have enough self worth that it does not matter who or how
many do not like them for whatever reason. They should still be
loving, positive, upbeat, for they know God loves them, and He
wants them to GIVE LOVE AND SERVICE to the world around them.
They should be giving out PEACE AND LOVE, SERVICE AND KINDNESS
..... NOT LOADING UP A GUN AND GOING OUT TO KILL PEOPLE!
PARENTS - you have one of THE most important jobs in the world!
TAKE IT MIGHTILY SERIOUS! BUT HAVE LOTS OF FUN WITH YOUR
CHILDREN AS YOU DO!
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