Raising children..

It's difficult not to get depressed after reading the papers nowadays. Did you read the link I posted a few days back? Today the papers talked about how churches in Indonesia are being forced to shut down at an alarming rate.... or risk being attacked. What's going on in the world?

I stood gazing out of my window just before deciding to blog. Babies are asleep... Yeah, I was trying to listen to the night sounds. I still hear the familiar crickets... but nothing much more. THe air is much hotter than it was 20 years back. Everynow and then, the peace is broken by some idiot speeding on a bike or race car. THings have changed at such a radical speed.

2o years back, this place was covered with lush green forest. Now, people are debating, holding emergency conferences about global warming. I read today that the top 3 countries responsible for the impending doom of the earth's climate and ozone are the USA, Indonesia and China. And what was China's response? They said they don't care, as long as their economy keeps booming! My gosh! people are just getting so selfish!

Sorry my thoughts are rather incoherent? or just fuddled duddled muddled today. but...things are changing too fast, I can't even grasp it and it's just falling out of my hands like sand. Change in weather, rising divorce rates, wars between religion and people groups, rise in drug addiction and pornography, downfall of family as teens and young adults adopt a lifestyle of "cohabitating", legalization of prostitution in some parts of the world, rise of same sex marriages, MTV, mass murders, suicides..... my gosh..........the list is endless. It wasn't this way 20 years back. It was simple, SAFE, and the family unit was strong. Now everything that I hold to be true and good is under attack. All this happened in just 2o years. If the world can deteriorate so much in just so few years...........what kind of future can I hope for my children?

There's no place left to run. Every country has it's own problems, ranging from threats from extremists to undesirable culture and lifestyle..........

Is there a safe place left in the world? A place where good morals and values still dominate? tell me where it is? I wanna go there.......for the sake of my children.....................

By the way, I like this quote "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." Ancient Indian Proverb.

....safe our world....for our children...........please................