Child......

My Thought for this Day........My wish is that every child had love and protection. But sadly, that is far from the truth. The infrastructure of America is in tatters. We are a society shattered by the iron strength of our families tumbling into millions of shards. We are confronted with young people who have no sense of security, nor self. Thus the lashing out is horrific.These kids live in the black. I am not making excuses for anyone who mows people down with any type of gun. I'm simply stating my heart. Our nation's children are being thrown away like yesterday's rubbish. They hide from their reality in any manner they can.  It is one thing to raise an entitled child. It is another for a child to have no foundation of trust, love or safety. Don't you dare tilt your head and say, " Well, in my day....".  Your day was not a constant barrage of social media comparing and abusing. Unless you walk everyday with these children whose eyes are blank, whose souls are pierced, and whose hopes are nil, you have no clue. I am merely stating a fact. When you have no coping skills, you can not cope. This is my thought. I will not debate nor defend. I live in the cauldron of this mess daily. I see the pain. Schools can not fix the unfixable. It has to begin at home. Yet our homes are merely houses, with no resemblance to home. It is overwhelming, raw and so filled with agony that we who observe it daily, can drown in their waters of black. I don't pretend to know how to put Humpty Dumpty together again.