I have been more and more confirmed in my suspicions with my views of parenting. I dont' ascribe to know much about parenting at all, since I am not one yet. However, working with today's youth, it seems like there are a lot of issues surrounding their well-being. I think that people from all different backgrounds would agree that today's youth deal with more things than generations in the past. More and more teenage pregnancies are occurring, and the scary thing is that many of them are intentional. The divorce rate is going up. Pornography is at the fingertips of any kid at school, home, and friends' houses. Not to mention all of the influences that are tugging at them from all directions. There are those old cartoons where you see Donald Duck with an Angel Donald on one shoulder and a Devilish Donald on the other. Today, there aren't just two choices...there are tons of fictitious characters that represent choices.
Many parents subscribe to the method of hide and seek. This is quite ironic because as children, we play peek-a-boo and hide and seek, and learn to seek after what is hidden from us. And yet, I've seen many, many parents attempt to resurface this strategy and hide the world from their children. And yet, if they are ever to find the truth, they will continue to "seek" until they do. In the Christian community, so many people see questions as such a negative thing. I believe that Jesus came as THE way and THE truth. Their is no subjectivity to it. But the only way to find truth is to ask questions. To question. To seek. Stubborn people are always the ones that claim to be open-minded and accepting, but the fact is, you're stubborn if you aren't willing to find the truth. And the only way to do that is to question. Is the fear that we don't know the answer, and perhaps won't know it? Or that we will find the answer and see that we have or will go down the "wrong" path? But one important thing to remember is, without a question there is not faith.
It's all very simple. Seeking God is seeking truth. And seeking truth is done by asking questions. Don't be afraid. Truth will win out.
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