For young people everywhere
Don't Give Up!
No child can outgrow their mother's prayers...
I really pray for our young people right now
with everything shut down
school online etc.
Many are bored, restless and lonely!
Today, as I watched one of my childcare tots
totter across the yard all bundled up
it reminded me of a (sort of) long ago world
that seemed so permanent at the time;
when our own children were little.
Now they are young men and women,
and all this isolation is very hard,
esp. for young men who tend to perhaps not have
as many indoor hobbies as girls might.
(esp. if they play sports)
Please pray for our young people,
that they use this as an opportunity to grow in their faith
and to become upstanding examples of man and womanhood.
Moms and dads, I guess we need to set good examples first, right?
This poem formed in my head as I watched the tot with one eye
and the little girl trying to touch the sky with her toes
from the swing I was pushing, with the other!
They scatter on December's yard
Like tatters of an old postcard
And decoupage a mother’s heart
In a collage of mem’ry-art
They waft like echoes on the air
A soft impression of Somewhere
Entangled in a mother’s sigh
Those whisper-grins of days gone by
They sparkle in fresh fallen snow
Footfalls muffled by come and go
To mirror in a mother’s tear
Reflections of sweet yester-year
They tug and hug and ebb and surge
Where past, present and future merge
To urge within a mother’s prayer
A tender plea for daily care
© Janet Martin
Hope your kids are doing all right, Janet. The isolation is awful. It affects schoolchildren mostly, I believe, and young adults. Their education is jeopardized, but, most importantly, they are deprived of social interaction, which is so important at their age. You cannot build social skills or make friends on Zoom. It's a legitimate concern, which is largely ignored by mainstream media. Yes, lots of prayers.
ReplyDeleteyou said it exactly. While ZOOM certainly is better than nothing in some cases it is a far cry from face-to-face interaction with unmasked smiles! Oh! praying we can keep our kids encouraged and this is over soon! We. need. people! I think it would be quite an eye-opener if we saw the number of suicides posted with Covid stats!!
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