Everywhere on every station is talk of ISIS. Does it make you nervous or do you ignore it? Even on my Facebook we can change our profile photos to show support in bringing peace.
It isn’t even just this issue. It is equal rights. It Is nutrition in schools , children graduating without proper education skills . Presidential debates and trying to make the best decision on information given to us.
Technology trying to beat itself each year by coming out with new gadgets . Division of religious groups, which one is actually correct. There is pushing children in education to the point there is not that much socialization skills learned, it is more about prepping the young minds to think college .
It is the television ads promoting their products ; trying to make us believe we couldn’t possibly be happy in our personal lives unless we make a purchase .
What has happened to our world? How much more material items can we squeeze into our households until we have pushed out the family unit and replaced this with things we can’t possibly treasure for a very long period .
How much turmoil , fighting, weepimg, begging, wanting, can our country take before the good Lord shakes his head and throws his arms up in the air, and decides he has had enough .
In my age group I am sure there are others who sit back and sigh as we look back at what we thought were major issues. In my house, we said a dinner prayer. We asked to be excused after eating.
Our homework was to be done before playing. We were in bed by nine each school night. We helped clear our plates. We were responsible for our bedrooms. We had chores and didn’t expect a reward . Dad said, “we lived there.”
There wasn’t a list a mile long of expensive Christmas wish lists. We respected our authorities . We went to school and if we tried to stay home, we better have a high temperature or throwing up. There weren’t thoughts about not graduating in my home.
Now, I sit here and listen and look around and I ask myself how much more. How much more will God tolerate before the roof caves in.
Every intolerant thing that happens, I have no choice but to turn to God and ask him, “help me Lord. Help me to be ready for your arrival.”
Who I am 
Yes my upbringing was like that, and look at parents now, they have hardly any control over the children, even young ones. Parents bend to make it good for the children. Discipline is necessary and the no word needs to be said when appropriate. It didn’t harm us.
Sad when you hear excuses in the morning when children come late to school and mum says, she didn’t want to get up. We had no choice and were made to get up to be on time.
It has changed so much, unfortunately.
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I understand exactly what you are saying . It started to get bad in the eighties when media said parents should be friends with the kids, it can’t be that way . Parents have to be parents
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Sometimes I look at the world and I think he has already given up on us. Then I see other things and realise he hasn’t. For all the bad we see in the world, we don’t see the good. We don’t see the people who pay for the person behind’s meal in the queue, we don’t see the policeman sitting down with an old couple making them feel wanted again. We don’t see the young people helping out at a shelter because they can. We don’t see the things that would bring a tear of happiness to our eye. The media doesn’t want us to see this, but it is there. There is more good than bad in this world. We just don’t see it so much.
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You are absolutely right. Thanks for changing my eyes and heart. The media is excellent at letting us in on the negative , hugs
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It’s what makes them money. Morbid curiosity and sensationalism.
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Yes you are right
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