We get so mad at KIDS THESE DAYS...I mean look at them...running around in middle school with issues on sexuality and cutting themselves,pink hair and doing drugs! I have over 100 students i see on a weekly basis...who frequently text me on all these things warping their lives. WHO IS TO BLAME..GOD ??? THE DEVIL??? THE CULTURE?/ THE MEDIA??? FRIENDS?? HOW ABOUT GOOD OLE MOM AND DAD! Most kids I know suffer from 1 major thing....LACK OF LOVE AND CARE FROM THEIR PARENTS. OH yeah the parents provide..but for the most part the majority of parents in with teens and preteens are not emotionally investing in the hearts and lives of their kids. Most of the kids I know are not bad..just unloved! So they look for love among their social order. the look for significance in hurting themselves. Pain is better than lonliness, at least there is other cutters you can identify with..but my parents,,,,they would never understand..how lonley I am. How could they when i see there lives...empty endless pursuits of bill paying,and beer drinkink shallow freindships and any reason to party and forget their troubles,Christmas included.But mom and dad say ....dont do as i do do as i say,ha ha. So the bondage is handed down...like an old pair of handcuffs or slave traders chains..from generation to generation. I wound up almost drinking myself to DEATH...because thats how my mom learned to cope with the death of my father. I took her chains tried them on and they fit...REAL GOOD. and I had good friends with these chains..others could see my chains, recognize them... i was in the family...But the real lock on MY chains was a huge, rusty lock of lonliness and fear. These 2 together have tag teamed many a teen to an early grave..and I was well on my way!When I was 16 I prayed to Jesus to be my savior..because someone said I should...but i knew he didnt love me..cause i wasnt good enough. thats all i knew.. i wasnt good...and Jesus died. I didnt get it ..or want it...Just like the people in Jerusalem..when JESUS showed up on palm sunday and saw his Kids partying down...REMANING IN THE BONDAGE OF EMPTY RELIGION PASSED DOWN BY THERE FOREFATHERS....LOOKING FOR A MESSIAH BUT NEVER REALLY EXPECTING HIM TO SHOW. IF THEY HAD REMAINED TRUE TO THE WORD OF GOD AND NOT RELIGION THEY WOULD HAVE KNOW THE EXACT DAY MESSIAH WAS TO WALK INTO TOWN FOR IT WAS FORETOLD BY DANIEL IN 9.25 & 26.And yet They thought he came to take out the roman government so they could get some respect and and have their country back. Like the old days KING DAVID DIDNT TAKE NO SMACK FROM ANYBODY. Everyone feared the ISREALITES AND RESPECTED THEM....BUT JESUS CAME TO TAKE CARE OF....THE MATTER OF SIN...NOT THE MATTERS OF STATE! HE CAME TO DEAL WITH OUR WAYWARD HEARTS AND SOULS. HIS KINGDOM IS AN INTERNAL RULE. BUT THE PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE RULED BY SOMEONE SO WEAK....NO TIME FOR MATTERS OF THE HEART...OUR KINGDOM IS NOT THE WAY IT SHOULD BE....parents busy building LITTLE kingdoms...HANDING DOWN CHAINS..no real time to build lives that matter ..submittted to THE KING OF KINGS. LESS STUFF MORE LOVE...LESS MONEY ..MORE TIME. WHAT IF YOUR SON CAME IN ONE DAY AND CAUGHT HIS FATHER WEEPING..ON THE FLOOR..WORSHIPING GOD! what would that do to his fathers reputation...his sons idea of what it means to be a man.and his world veiw on what life is really about? What would it do to the way he treats hisfriends teachers...and what would it do to his veiw of GOD????and JESUS SEES THE PEOPLE WITH THIS FALSE WORSHIP OF HIM..LAYING DOWN THERE COATS AND PALM BRANCHES..NOT THEIR SINS,BURDENS AND BONDAGES.....AND HE CRIES!!!!!! A MAN CRYING OUT LOUD FOR A LOST GENERATION... I WONDER IF TODAY HE WALKS THROUGH OUR CHURCHES,SCHOOLS AMD HOMES...AND CRIES. Lets pray...... LORD LET ME BE SOMEONE WHO CARES TO BE REAL ENOUGH.. LOVE KIDS ENOUGH.LOVE OTHERS ENOUGH..TO Cry out loud...............peace.