First of all, let me start by saying, I dedicate THIS work to
my beloved grandmother that I lost last July.
Her hand is always on my shoulder.
My Grandmother
From her I learned that babies are our future; teach them
well and let them lead the way.
In 2012, right before Christmas, a deranged young man with a
gun walked into an elementary school and killed 20 babies, children between 6
and 7 years old. This deeply disturbed
her and deeply touched me. There can be
nothing more innocent in THIS world than a baby going to school to try and
learn. We as parents and those who are
educators can’t be more thrown than to think about our children, our charges
from God, to be massacred in their classrooms, where we sent them, to learn,
and to be SAFE. But this deranged young
man stole innocence from this world on that day, and to double down on the
insanity of that act, there are people in this country who refused to believe
this event was real, and worse yet, there are those who personally profit from
keeping you from feeling what my grandmother felt, what I felt, what I hope YOU
felt, when those innocent souls violently transitioned from this life. As you
sit there shaking your heads feeling the transactional pain from that memory,
allow me to tell you at that very moment when the totality of that event was
tallied, I doubted the existence of a God.
How could God allow something like that to happen? Well I regained my Faith and know that not
only is there a God, but there is a Heaven and in that kingdom my ancestors are
there now (most of them) looking down on me and keeping me steadfast in my
beliefs. But if you believe in God, you
should also believe in the Devil. The
Devil is just as real y’all. He is real
and though it may seem like it, he does not live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in
Washington DC. That man is NOT the
Devil, he is just a puppet of Satan.
In THIS country, Satan is not A person, he is the
manifestation of all evil that is the American gun lobby, the NRA. When in December of 2012 those minions of
Satan stood fast and tried to tell you that that massacre didn’t happen and
there was no need to try and make it harder for any deranged person or PERSONS
to get their hands on weapons of mass murder and the ammo to make them deadly,
they convinced ME, that this country, this land that I love, this "country Tis
Of THEE", didn’t care about babies.
Babies who are our future, teach them well and let them lead
the way, was a song verse, not a way of truth in this country.
In February of THIS year, on Valentine’s Day, in Parkland, Florida,
another deranged young man with a weapon of mass destruction, walked into the
High School he once attended, and shot and killed his former classmates and
teachers and once again, we were told, there is nothing that can be done. Gun rights trump (marinate on that word)
TRUMP…, the rights of babies to go to school and be safe. I once again shook my head and said to
myself, when is enough going to be enough?
Thank God my grandmother wasn’t around to once again fret over another
of these tragedies. Politicians
pontificated, pundits bloviated, families lamented, the media salivated, and we
all once again, prepared for the next tragedy to happen. But guess what?
Children ARE OUR future, seems we DID teach them well and now
they are leading the way!
How many of us, myself included, have seen things happen in
our lives, in our neighborhoods, in the malls, and lamented, “these kids today,
Geez, what will our future be like with THIS coming generation taking over. You see, WE are the future OUR forbearers
expected to make changes happen, and to some degree, we have done major
things. But we have also FAILED them
because we did NOT prepare the next generation to make things better…., OR
DIDN’T we?? The term “It Takes a
Village” has fallen away as social media has made everyone LESS social. Ready made meal restaurants have made family
meal time less family oriented. And we
have all, to some degree, abdicated the responsibility to, “teach them well,
and let them lead the way! But human nature
is at it’s core, NATURE, and as the man said in the movie Jurassic Park;
“Nature will find a way”.
Social media and all of its evils, has been utilized by THIS
group of babies to create a movement, a powerful movement that reached not only
across this nation, but around the WORLD and called upon caring adults to join
with them and show the minions of Satan and the fool in The White House, (who
left town) that they will not die away quietly THIS TIME, they will not go
quietly into that good night! THESE
babies, this group of children who were 10 and 11 years old when Sandy Hook
happened, and some of them who were not yet BORN, stepped into the Light and
yelled out from the podiums and platforms at marches and rallies, WE WILL BE
THE CHANGE THAT YOU REFUSE TO MAKE YOURSELVES!
An estimated 800,000 people marched on Washington, DC. Over 200 more rallies and marches were held all
over this world on that day. The streets
of Boston looked as crowded as they do on any Patriot’s Day for the marathon. The reality was, MILLIONS of voters and immediate
future voters came out to support this very just cause. Those
numbers and this movement cannot be dismissed nor ignored. I could not have been more proud, (until I
found out that my own son was in DC for the march, refusing to be another
tragedy of these times ) than to see on MOST networks that the world is now
going to HAVE TO TAKE NOTICE. My heart welled with pride and
my resolve was strengthened because THESE BABIES, THESE offspring of our
efforts, THIS representation of the future to come;
IS NOW TEACHING US WELL, AND SHOWING US HOW THEY WILL LEAD
THE WAY!
