My Thoughts in Short

It's been one of those days and I've been looking forward to blogging tonight, but it is getting late. After I created this blog I was looking forward to writing about the wonderful, amazing, and sometimes stretching things that Father is doing in my life here in Arizona. I was thinking about writing about Thanksgiving, which I will do eventually. What I'd really wanted to write about tonight was bullying and how it affects kids long-term.

I've been dealing with bullying at work. I see the long-term affects it has on kids. I've seen and experienced the affects it has on adults who experienced it as children. Shortly put, it breaks my heart and makes me angry. Angry, because some adults don't get it. Some kids don't how to just, "ignore it" or "let it go." Frankly, they shouldn't have to ignore it - the bullying must STOP. And "let it go." Get real! A child or teen who has been excluded, laughed at, called names, needled, and mimicked by different groups of kids for 2-9 years should let it go????!!!?? Well, yes they need to for their own emotional health, but how? Someone needs to teach them how. Depending on many other factors in the child and their life they may not have the ability within themselves to ignore the messages that the bullying is sending to their emotional heart. And I see the gentle, beautiful, joyful hearts of kids being wounded repeatedly by peers, teachers, and family members. It breaks my heart. It breaks the Father's heart.

Father, show us what breaks your heart. Show us how to minister your love and grace to the broken-hearted adults and children we encounter daily. May you heal the broken-hearted. In Yeshua's (Jesus) name , AMEN

I'm blogging???

Okay, first blog ever. Deciding to give it a shot, maybe it'll help keep up with folks in WI and elsewhere. This is interesting, but I'm actually supposed to grading papers. Well really I should be sleeping. Well, I've tried posting more later.