Recently I have had some major milestones happen in my life. In a 30 day period my only daughter got married and my father, who married my daughter and her husband, suddenly passed away. What???? I went from a time of celebratory completion of a mother’s time with her daughter to the shock of my father’s life suddenly completed.

The truth is, I’m not the only person feeling this, our world “Doesn’t Look The Same”! I used to believe my parents were exaggerating when they told me times were different when they were growing up. Here I am, not just looking at my personal life being altered, but I don’t even recognize the world I live in. Where did the life I grew up in go? Honestly, it has been slowly changing as I have been trying to seek who and what I am supposed to be in it. It wasn’t until my life, my world, suddenly received its own personal earthquake that I stopped and truly paid attention to what was going on around me.

This isn’t political, it isn’t about sports, entertainment or even all of our rights, this is a spiritual battle. We are living in a world today where those who came before us and paved a way, truly sacrificing so we could have a voice, aren’t respected or honored. Social media is filled with the constant opinions of those who have lost compassion and have forgotten none are perfect and we all need God’s grace and mercy. When I see Christians take their political rage out and help to facilitate hate and division, I weep. Where is our love?

Losing my father confirmed in me it s time to stick to my post…. I am just one of the next generation that is to mentor, lead, comfort, guide and love those trying to understand “life”. It’s not going to be easy, those who know God and have convictions, we are the minority. We are demanded to accept everyone else’s choices but be silent in our own. I don’t have to shove what I believe at you, but I WILL LIVE IT before you. I will love you where you are and see you how God sees you, until you see who you are!

We are waking up to the realization that the groundwork has not been set with those coming behind us. Our world has given them technology, opportunities and freedoms that generations before us have never experienced. We have spoken to their “self”, their pride and given them a sense of false hope because it doesn’t have staying power. We must pour into them compassion, humility, selflessness, giving, honor, respect, peace, joy, hope, faith and most of all love. Back in my day…… the fruit of the spirit.