ReBlog: Anybody Know The Right Answer?

Answers, opinions ...  Yakkity yak, and etc. 

Youth, depending on adults.  A bit scary, at times.   School systems; mental health systems; Congress; law enforcement; parents.

 
Our youth need answers, and a safe place to get a good education.  They need to know that they can get  help when they need it, when things don't make sense, and their emotions and thoughts seem a little off kilter. Our young folks need responsible people to go the extra mile, to run this country in an excellent manner.  Our youth need to be in school, getting an education, preparing for their future; not worried about their safety, not worried about their mental health, and not worried about the leaders of our country having turf wars.

December of 2012, many adults spoke out through the media about answers, that would, theoretically, fit painful and powerful question marks.  There was a variety of perspectives, opinions, strategies, proposals, passionate pleas. It looked a bit like a competition for who would come up with the "right answer", as if there was a prize to be awarded.

If we work our way ... backwards ... it might look something like this:

1. What would the prize be?
2. The prize would be rewarded for the right answer;
3. The right answer accurately follows the question; 
4. What is the question that goes with the "right answer"?
5. What is / are the right question(s)? 

What if the right questions are not being asked? My guess is ... that we will not procure the right answers.  That could be a problem.

"Sometimes

the questions are more important

than the answers."

Anonymous

Amidst the excess verbiage that came from / through TV and radio, these two pieces came through continuously:

"We can easily fix the problems in our schools."  

"We can easily fix the problems in our juvenile mental health care system."

But one perspective that I did not hear, facilitated by the media, was this one:

  

"There is no easy fix to the crisis in our schools.  

There is no easy fix to the crisis in our mental health care system. 

In fact, there may not be ANY fix for these problems.
Solutions would require that people work together."

My research, my experience, and the wisdom that has been passed down says that the chaos we are talking about may never be fixed.    The only hope we have ... is God.

Ask questions.  Pray for the children. Bring it to the table.  Love God, love the children, and REJOICE.