Children are being forced to labor aggressively.
Children are being forced to slaughter heartlessly.
Children are being forced to grow up much too quickly.
War is not the fight, is not the fight to be fought,
By the children who know, by the children who know not,
Of the things of a man, the things of a man grown.
They lack in defense, they overflow in dependence.
They are stripped of emotion, morality, and conviction.
Their hearts are defiled, embarrassed, and abandoned.
My stomach cannot handle the stories to be told.
My heart cannot understand the lives they have lived.
My mind cannot comprehend the choice of the man;
So fearless and cold whose heart cannot be stirred,
Not stirred by the empty eyes of the children they have stripped,
The children they have corrupted, the lives they have destroyed.
My God I have compassion, but it cannot end here.
Grant me strength to press on,
Grant me awareness to take action,
Grant me means to the end,
That will make a dent in the lives,
The lives of the ones being broken.
God doesn’t discipline as a punishment for our sins, but always as a means to restoration.
”Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. But remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” -Epicurus
When did I stop living inspired?
[Therefore brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil Conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.]
“For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people saying ‘this is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.’ And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.”
