Well today is the first day of school and I’m sure the teachers will already be looking forward to Friday. The first week of school usually either goes smoothly or the children are complete monsters because they’re not used to sitting still unless it’s in front of a gaming system.
It won’t take them long to get back into the routine of school again. I remember when my children were still at home and started school. It was a great day for my wife and I but the kids left with long faces. Usually by they had big smiles on their faces when they came home. Either that or the same miserable look they had that morning. Oh well, it’s like I explained to them, if you start your day with a good attitude then the day will probably go good but if you don’t, don’t expect to have a good day.
Before you know it, the kids will be back in school. The problem is that with so many people out of work, there is a real need for ‘School Tools’ donations. I don’t know if they do that in your area or not but maybe you need to the the one to start something like that.
I know a lot of churches collect items that children need for school and then distribute them to needy children but there is even more need than just one church or two can handle. If nothing else, find a family you know that is struggling and offer to buy what their child needs for school. Ask them to allow you the ‘honor’ of helping this child with his education.
It’s very hard to let your child fall. A parents first reaction is to reach out and catch them but there are times when you have to let them fall. Once they have fallen, a parents first reaction is to reach down and pick them up but sometimes the best thing is to let them get back up on their own. I have a hard time trying to let my children learn a hard lesson that they have put themselves into but one thing I have also learned from these lessons my son has to learn, and that is that I have to let him learn them or he never will. I have to let him learn the hard way and I can keep running to get him out of what ever mess he has gotten himself into anymore.
He has spent over 2 months in jail and will be getting out on the 23rd he told me today. When he gets out, it’s on his own totally. I did not pay for his bail, I did not pay for a lawyer, I did not pay to get his truck out so he walks out with the clothes on his back and whatever the wife of someone who is also in jail with him was able to get out of his truck. That hurts me so much but he has to learn or he will end up in prison for a long, long time. I can’t stand the thought of that and neither can he so hopefully, with the help of God, he has learned.
Our world is so full of hate and I have a hard time understanding this. People killing innocent people just because they lost their job or kids killing classmates in school because someone picked on them. How can this be? Why has it become so easy to take a gun and take someone else’s life? Sure if someone is threatening to harm you or your family then you have to do what you have to do but these people are killing people that have done nothing to them. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about that just occurred in Alabama.
Ten people have been killed and several injured across two small towns of Samson and Geneva in Alabama after a shooting incident by a gunman. The victims include the gunman and the wife and child of a sheriff’s deputy.
The gunman started his killing spree in a gas station in Samson after 5 p.m. Eastern Time and his rampage ended 12 miles away at the Reliable Metal Products plant, a manufacturing plant in Geneva. According to a report by CNN from Alabama state Senator Harri Anne Smith, who represents Geneva County “he [the gunman] was shooting at just ordinary people going about their business”.
The gunman was identified as Michael McLendon, who once worked at the Reliable Metal Products plant. He took his life at the plant after an encounter with the police. The victims include six adults and a child. The investigators are not sure what caused this catastrophic event to take place. Samson and Geneva are two small rural towns with a population of less than 5000 in Alabama near the Florida border.
Life is precious. No one knows why this person when on the shooting spree that took the life of a small child in the rampage this man when on. Then he took the cowards way out and killed himself. If his life was so terrible, why didn’t he just take his own life and let the innocent people live their lives? No one can give an answer to that question unfortunately. Maybe we need to teach our children just how precious life really is because somewhere along the line, that seems to be a lesson not enough people learned.
Well my son has been sending me letters from jail and I am beginning to really hear or read a difference in each and every letter. He is finally starting to realize that he has gotten himself in this mess and he’s going to have to do what he has to do to get himself out of it. He’s finally realizing that Mom and Dad can’t fix everything anymore.
It hurts me to have to teach him this lesson but if he doesn’t learn it now, he’s going to end up somewhere he really doesn’t want to be and somewhere I don’t want him to be either. In all reality, he’s teaching himself a hard lesson.