Just Like Us

Just like our choices and experiences morph into who we become; just like our consumption morphs into our physical state; just like our thought life morphs into how we see the world and each other; our sins morph into our spiritual darkness; our lives lead inevitable to the death that we deserve. ******************************************************************************************************************** An example, regarding cause and affect, could be: I stay out in the sun too long without protection. I end up burnt to a lobster red a couple of times in my life. Ten years later, or so, I end up with precancerous cells. The way that I see it, being a non-medical person, my skin cells get deformed from the over exposure to the sun’s rays and, though it takes years, I slowly develop deformities, one bad precancerous spot after another, until my cells accept that deformity as ‘normal for me’ and continues to produce it. ***************************************************************************************************************************** I don’t really notice it right away. Not being aware enough about such things, I ignore the ‘age’ spots developing until I can’t. And once I do get seen by a doctor, and they are removed, I end up having to go back because I keep getting those precancerous cells… even where the sun don’t shine, so to speak. My body accepts it as ‘normal for me.’ My end could easily be from melanoma due to my life choices. *************************************************************************************************************************** But to add to that, since I am ignorant to the affect of the sun, I raise a family and don’t prepare them for it either. I don’t make them drink water enough. I don’t make them wear sunscreen until it is their habit also. I don’t make them wear a hat, cover their bodies or arms, prepare for swimming; I do nothing much to teach them about something that I know nothing about. (Ignorantly thinking, but not directly, what is good for me is good for them too.) But it ain’t. Is it? ****************************************************************************************************************************** Now we could be talking about sunscreen. We could also be saying the same thing about drinking alcohol, drugs, lust, sex, gambling, swearing, vanity, appropriate dress, hate talk, comfort eating, anorexia, condemnation, immoral business practices, thieving, murder, what we watch, how we act and who we do what to. Literally everything that we choose, or have chosen for us in this life, can form a pattern in our lives that ALWAYS has consequences. ************************************************************************************************************************** From a very infantile age, our children copy what we do and say. They hear us cuss and they say ‘damn’ and we think it is so cute initially. They hear us say some mean things about our ‘friends’ who just left and they start mimicking us. If we never learned how to parent properly, how will we teach the next generation? They see us in abusive relationships crying to keep the peace but staying to be beat another day and what do you think they choose? We scream instead of talk; what do they learn? We shout at them to do better but don’t take time to teach them what that looks like. How does that help? We bully. We brag. We yell. We curse. We drink or party. We cheat. We lie. We use. We manipulate. We overindulge them to try to bury our inadequacies. THEY WATCH AND LEARN. Our words, our guilt, our anger, our insecurities, our thoughts, our tone, our brokenness, our hate, our love, our sins, our spirit or lack thereof. WE aren’t the only ones that have consequences. Our children, their children and so forth… generational curses. I can point to mine; can you point to yours? *********************************************************************************************************************** If I could show you, in advance, from the day that you are born, how this world and everything in it has a cause and affect on who you will become, how you will parent, how your children will develop and how, in turn, your future generations are affected... by EVERY SINGLE thing in that first paragraph, I would. If I could guide you rightly, as I was not, I would. If I could turn back time and correct my choices, experiences, consumption, thought and spiritual life… I surely would. **************************************************************************************************************************** Inevitably, it would be ideal if we could live in a commune type place where people love one another, raise crops and animals and share with each other. Teach each other about God, to love and live in harmony with the elements that we are stuck with in this world and with each other. But when I imagine it, because of how I see this world now, I imagine it turning into the “Walking Dead.” I see the sins of humanity walking into our communes along side the humans and ruining it all… very quickly. ******************************************************************************************************************** It isn’t hopeless... if your children are young enough to learn and you can get right with God and show them the right way. We could raise up a generation of believers who can ward off evil with God’s help. They could have a shot at living a clean peaceful life in the world until they are called home. Wouldn’t that be lovely? But in the end, you have to lead by example and therein lies part of the problem. Doesn’t it? You can’t teach what you don’t know. You can’t learn if you don’t go. ****************************************************************************************************** Just thinking. In the end, I think more on what I failed to do right, than what I may have actually done. I wish I had been thinking a lot earlier in my life. I wish the same for you and yours. That’s all.