Our children are lost because we give them instruction without direction, we give them rules instead of respect, we offer them fear instead of freedom, we example rebellion instead of righteousness.

Our children are suffering because we are suffering. Because we are an unhealed and unhappy collection of programmed and systematic responses to hate and evil.

Our children don’t experience love because we lack an ability to let go. We don’t love, we control. We don’t love, we contort. We don’t love, we command. We don’t love, we compete. We don’t love, we compare. We don’t love, we confuse. We don’t love, we complain.

Our children do not have a chance because we won’t surrender our hope of having one. Because we won’t step aside. Because we refuse to stand down when the time requires that. We’d rather have vindication instead of vision. We want redemption instead of renewal. We’d settle for profit instead of progress.

Our children know this.

Our children know that we’re hurt. Our children know that we’re angry. Our children know that we’re jealous of them, of their youth, of their chance. Our children know that we are their biggest albatross. Our children know that we are their most ferocious foe.

We are the enemy. Of our own children!

We are losing our children to inspirations and influences that are the available that we are not. Because they offer access to ideas and impulses that we act like we don’t possess. Because we’d rather be secretive and selfish about our faults. We won’t mention our real mistakes. We hide our issues. We try to protect our identities from the very people that really know us.

Our children know us!

And they’ve exhibited a level of grace and understanding that could only be the power of God. That they’ve chosen not to overcome us, for the respect and regard of who and what we mean to them, is a love that we’ve tried hard to deny.

Because we fail them. We fail them because we don’t love them. We don’t love them because we don’t love ourselves. We don’t love ourselves because we have no idea of who we are.

We don’t know who we are because…

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