DAD & MUM

There was someone that watched Bobby Brown wed the church girl Whitney Houston, someone saw Michael Jackson start crack, someone saw to the lesbian and gay marriages, someone saw that girl dress nude and step outside, someone noticed that boy drag cigars, someone saw the baby have temper trumps and hit things hard on the floor. Someone watched that girl refuse to sit when asked to, it started with a little red wine on the table to “help food digest” to the boy hitting his sister without reprimand, to the mother watching X-rated movies while watching the child do homework. It always starts at home. The father/mother is either never there or too busy to notice the child grow from a toddler to the adult. The child is left alone to the world and its vices then handed over to the church for rehabilitation.

Agreed, the bible said let the little children come to me
, but that was when the heart was yet unformed. God knew how hard it was to convert made clay. The church is too busy preaching the Bible to preach Christ, we are running after the exodus and letting go the revelations. No other time is the Law of Moses more magnified in the church than in our time. The way I dress, the friends I keep, the words I speak define me. No effort is made to improve me, I am thrown away to be scorned by the devil. So much show for missions, enough food, and gas and supplies yet no Christ. Christian “Christ – Like” oh there is definitely a semblance of godliness in the hymn, the prayer, the creed but no power in our personality. We fall like crawling babies without a hand to lift us up; we take our first few steps in an anxiety and crash like a heap of rumble.

Everyone from the priest to the pope is too busy doing missions to do evangelism. Our mothers do not even know the colour of our eyes not to speak of finding our birthmarks, our fathers have just the skin colour and so content of character is imputed by the different men we meet day in, day out. The sons have so much attention but no love from the mothers and so end up giving so much of the content to the people they meet. At valentine it’s February “for teen” with adult content. We are told we were born by sheer grace and not by sex bonding, that our parents were infallible so we are expected to be exact replicas. That the Holy Spirit witnessed to their marriages and so we are not expected to have a crush. We have fathers not interested in the toddler boy but the accomplished man. The world is a busy place, so we all must be busy doing something or nothing…

Dear dad and mom, the world is changing and it has a whole lot it’s offering us, the Church is trying but have no clue to what this generation requires. We know what you do behind closed doors at night, we know how babies are made, we know when you and mom had a brawl, we know you do not know who our father is, we know our mother had to leave us, we know you dropped out of college, we know you failed exams, we know you have a craving in your loins for strange women, we know you bring strange men home, we know it all. We don’t know how but we got to know how….the church is teaching us literature, taking our offerings and when we fall just like any other person they will pour us out with the bath water. So you have two options; save us or loose us.

Yes we will become the grand adults you pictured when you had us, but that’s all we will remain pictures. On the inside we will decay till we give you a feedback of the pain you would have saved us if you did a stitch in time. It’s ok to be stern but better to tell us the truth. We need to know you and you need to know us. We are the last generation you will have standing if you leave us a legacy. The church does have a lot of plans for us but between now and when those plans come true we need you. You are the first thing we awake to see, the last thing we talk to before we go into our rooms and settle into our communications world which is our real world.

Train us up in the way we should go, we may drift from it but it will bring us back to the fold. We do not want to leave being church girls and boys and turn into crack, porn and domestically violent stars. Save yourself the pain by saving us from pain. We love you now but we don’t know about then when the chips fall. We can’t blame the church they don’t own us, so they can’t make us. They have tried to, but there is so much more to us than the congregation can see. Everyone is too spiritual much more than the Holy Spirit. We need a Jesus we see and that is you. You mom, dad, brother, sister. The world would be a better place f only we had the family as one.