And this is all I can say...
Imagine this with me.
Abuse Facts
All of these are kids, old and young. Look at those numbers. That's one year's worth of abuse in Texas alone! Look at what happens in our own nation!
"In 2001, about 3,844,000 children were reported as possible victims of child abuse and neglect in the United States."
"4 children die from child abuse every day in the US."
"13,700 children are abused and neglected every day in the US."
You want truth? There is some harsh realities right there. When I was on YIM tour (Youth In Ministry Tour) recently, we had the opportunity to perform in some amazing places. Places where kids can come to a refuge and escape being another abuse or neglect statistic. I heard stories that made me cry, and stories that made me want to literally throw up. It was sickening and saddening and yet, rewarding at the exact same time. Rewarding in the sense that, they were happy where they were at. That those people, don't have to go home everyday to that pill pushing mother, or alcoholic father.
Yet there are still more out there. My generation. My generation is still hurting. My generation has seen more, done more, and survived more than any other generation ever known. We have been dealt more crap than any other generation and we have a choice. Do we use this as our excuse to continue the crap? Do we continue wallowing in the crap that is dealt to us? Or do we stand up, clean ourselves off, and move towards healing? I met many people on that trip, that could've just given up. But their strength they showed was amazing. They are making our generation, truely a revoultionary generation.
I don't know much more to say, so I hope the rest of you will take my little story where I left off, I know one more person who feels the way I'm feeling. Who else feels this way? That it's time WE took a stand for our generation? Stood in the gap for them and gave them something all men should have? Hope?
Dear God,
I once prayed a dangerous prayer, that I would be used by you, and that you would break my heart with the things that breaks yours. And you are making this prayer a part of me. So now I add this to my prayer, allow me Lord, to stand in the gap for my genereation, I pray that healing would be brought to the "Land of the Free". I pray that people would realize how trapped they really are, and that you begin to move upon this nation and bring it back to it's roots in you.
(All statistics were taken from www.preventchildabusetexas.org)
Abuse Facts
2003 Texas
- Physical abuse: 36,606
- Sexual abuse: 7,473
- Abandonment: 420
- Medical neglect: 2,371
- Physical neglect: 7,198
- Neglectful Supervision: 26,398
- Refusal to accept parental responsibility: 845
- Emotional abuse: 1067
All of these are kids, old and young. Look at those numbers. That's one year's worth of abuse in Texas alone! Look at what happens in our own nation!
"In 2001, about 3,844,000 children were reported as possible victims of child abuse and neglect in the United States."
"4 children die from child abuse every day in the US."
"13,700 children are abused and neglected every day in the US."
You want truth? There is some harsh realities right there. When I was on YIM tour (Youth In Ministry Tour) recently, we had the opportunity to perform in some amazing places. Places where kids can come to a refuge and escape being another abuse or neglect statistic. I heard stories that made me cry, and stories that made me want to literally throw up. It was sickening and saddening and yet, rewarding at the exact same time. Rewarding in the sense that, they were happy where they were at. That those people, don't have to go home everyday to that pill pushing mother, or alcoholic father.
Yet there are still more out there. My generation. My generation is still hurting. My generation has seen more, done more, and survived more than any other generation ever known. We have been dealt more crap than any other generation and we have a choice. Do we use this as our excuse to continue the crap? Do we continue wallowing in the crap that is dealt to us? Or do we stand up, clean ourselves off, and move towards healing? I met many people on that trip, that could've just given up. But their strength they showed was amazing. They are making our generation, truely a revoultionary generation.
I don't know much more to say, so I hope the rest of you will take my little story where I left off, I know one more person who feels the way I'm feeling. Who else feels this way? That it's time WE took a stand for our generation? Stood in the gap for them and gave them something all men should have? Hope?
Dear God,
I once prayed a dangerous prayer, that I would be used by you, and that you would break my heart with the things that breaks yours. And you are making this prayer a part of me. So now I add this to my prayer, allow me Lord, to stand in the gap for my genereation, I pray that healing would be brought to the "Land of the Free". I pray that people would realize how trapped they really are, and that you begin to move upon this nation and bring it back to it's roots in you.
(All statistics were taken from www.preventchildabusetexas.org)
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19/6/05 8:48 PMI am so glad that you found a new...outlook. (for lack of a better word.) I hope that you continue in that throughout the years ahead. I totally agree with you. WE need to do something to change the atmosphere WHEREVER we are. Teenagers across the country are realizing that they have a voice and a choice to wallow or not.
Tiffany
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