Generation Gap. I get to see this more and more these days --- how the new generation is very different from how our generation is. (It makes me feel old). While it can be funny sometimes, often it's sad ... and a wee bit scary. This is the generation who will run the world.
In the everyday hustle and bustle of our fast-paced lives, we lose track of each other and fail to communicate (despite the amazing technology which should allow us to do so) at a more personal / intimate level ... and the essentials are lost in translation or, more appropriately, non-translation.
We are breeding a generation characterized by immediate gratification, self-entitlement, apathy and spiritual cynicism. And, for all the great new inventions available at their fingertips, they are an unhappy and lost lot, desperately looking for some deeper meaning in the highly superficial world they move in.
We need to arm our children with the right moral compass as future stewards of this beautiful world we inherited. This means we need to be bolder in allowing our children to learn on their own; while being there to help process them through the difficulties. Kids are more resilient and smarter than we give them credit for. And they hunger for connection, meaning and something (or someone) to believe in. Let's give them God and make Him a normal, tangible reality in our lives.
From 1st Reading - Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9
" ... take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live, but teach them to your children and to your children's children."
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