SPIRITUAL SUNDAY: STOP THE BULLYING!

I am sending you to view a video, a brand spanking new video by Taylor Swfit. She is such a blessing to the young kids out there. You can't write the stuff she writes unless you have been there and done that! I just viewed her newly debuted video "Mean" and it sends a strong message  showing bullies in action but the consequences for kids who have something to believe in! Yesterday I read that three teens involved in the bullying that ended in the hanging of a beautiful young teen Phoebe Prince in Hadley, Mass. I was outrageous that they were sentenced to probation! I usually don't get too political or too serious here but...we need to stop the bullying. I wish I had a list of every child that ended their life because of this misery. But here I can only hope and pray that many of these teens know the Lord personally and He guided them to Heaven pain free. Perhaps you think I am silly but many years ago a Catholic priest I knew who suffered from mental illness committed suicide after he had made repeated attempts. An elderly priest told me he thought God must have some special plan for these lost souls because he could not help but believe that somehow in those last moments of life, God personally ushered him and many suicide victims into His care for eternity.
My youngest son was bullied all through middle school. As an 8th grader he had enough and punched that boy end in his face! The teacher told us had she not been fired from her job she would have given Nick a standing ovation with the rest of her class! A wheelchair bound girl approached Nick later and thanked him as her hero! That boy had repeatedly tired to overturn her wheelchair and nothing was ever done! I do not condone violence but the school systems need to take a stand. The Columbine killer Eric Harris had written bone chilling details of his plan of attack in a writing class and the teacher claimed she was helpless in doing anything about it. Eric acted out his fantasy in every gruesome detail gunning down 13 innocent people including a teacher who died a hero! His parent claimed the shrink he was seeing told them they had no right to invade his privacy!  I am not condoning Eric's behavior but he was also a victim of bullying his entire life! The Arizona shooter who had instructors so frightened of him that they had an armed guard in the room with them while teaching him at community college! The bully football hero at Notre Dame University, the tormenters of the young gay music prodigy . The list is endless. Let's stop today for a moment and pray for the parents of these lost children. I wish for one moment I could have spoken to each one of them. To let them know how important they really were and how if no one seemed to care the Lord would always love them! But we know God is not allowed the public school system. Broken homes, broken dreams, broken lives. I think we all need to pray. Let's make bullying a top priority to dissolve it. I think the problem starts in the home where a parent or some relative has bullied that child! Let's pray for all of the bullies too and let us watch God work in lives. He is busy and we need to remind Him of what  we think is important. The Taylor Swifts and Bill Gates and Derek Jeters had wonderful support systems to outsmart the bully. I wonder how many children feel hopeless today. It bothers me on this beautiful weekend.
2Timothy 1:7 "God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self control."
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