Today the message must be about children and community. The quotes, readings and passages are all about children. “There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.” A Omaha Juvenile Court Judge said, “If you put money in the playpen you will end up putting less money in the state pen!”
There may be no greater responsibility, privilege or joy than helping the next generation to become who they are destined to be. It does take a village to raise a child. A village of caring, loving, teaching, healing, disciplining village.
I remember growing up in Bellevue, NE and riding my bike down to the liquor store to buy a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk. Today I am not sure that any parent would send their child to a liquor store, allow them to ride their bike more than a few blocks let alone a mile, and certainly not by themselves! Times have change, but the need for that village has not. We need to figure out how to achieve that sense of village again.
Today I live in a neighborhood where I don’t “know” any of my neighbors. I know when they leave their house to go somewhere, what cars are normally there and if they spend any time outside or not. I don’t know their telephone numbers, names, birthdays, where they work, how many kids they have, or if they make good pie or not. As I was growing up, even as a kid, I knew all those things about my neighbors.
We can be the change we seek in this world. Helping nurture our youth of today (the here and now) will help provide for a better tomorrow for us all.
Chaplain Royal
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