Opening up the newspaper or turning on the televison gives you one more opportunities to witness troubled teens. Girls at one time would fight over boys by pulling hair and shoving each other into lockers. Today, our girls carry guns and they use them.
Have we not given to them what was given to us as young children? Love, affection and all of the attention we needed or were we just as violent but no one reported it on the 6:00 news.
I ask you, do you talk with your daughters, granddaughters, mothers, aunts and others about the trouble in your life?
It is time for all of us to pray harder, listen longer and spend more time with our daughters and our mothers. A gun in the hand means the possibility of death for someone and it may be the person carrying the gun, your daughter, brother or mother.
Our churches are the perfect place for us to gather on Sunday mornings, but it is also the perfect place for us to gather on Monday evening, Friday night or Thursday morning. We should begin to make better use of these big beautiful buildings by encouraging more opportunities for our daughters to recevie teaching and love from the mothers of the church.
I challenge you to speak with your pastor, elder, minister, or bishop to truly get the doors of your church open.
