My big question is why do so many people look down when they meet someone. I can guess a lot of things but I would probably be wrong. The saddest ones to me are the young people I see , hands in their pockets, heads down, shuffling their feet, blank expressions. I wonder sometimes if they feel like the world and all their childhood expectations have been destroyed. For some I wonder if they even allowed to be a child. So many , at very young ages are being forced to deal with emotions and situations that they are nowhere near mature enough to handle. When did we lose "were a kid can be a kid". When they look around at the adults around them do they lose hope in their future post high school and college. "Is this what I have to look forward to?" Why try when all I see is heart ache, broken promises and let down.
It makes me think. When Justin and Kara see Jacque and I does it give them hope for the future. Are my words filling them with hope? Most of the time I feel good about this. Justin and Kara are good kids, the majority of the time. Our goal as parents is to make sure that our relationship with Father God is evident in everything we do say. ( that's our goal). We want are children to stand tall with heads held high in Christs salvation through grace. Our hope is that their hope will be in Christ. I can't force them to do anything so I pray they will see Jesus working through me in the good and the bad. That they will see that even though I may change, God doesn't.
So maybe the first step to getting the heads to come up is a simple heart felt "hello", it may be the door that opens to a deeper relationship, that someone was looking for.
Blessings for this Day.
Russ.
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