2024 has arrived. We anticipate a new year filled with adventure and memories. For many it will be a time with old friends, establishing new relationships, travel and responsibilities. Such time is untarnished and virgin. It is a gift unspent and, like an empty slate, is a blackboard, waiting to be written upon.
Yet, the time will be spent and the clean slate will chalk filled.
This reminds me of the innocence of youth. Children come into this world pure and unblemished. There is a freshness and virgin naivety that little ones share. They are gifted with a time of dreaming and adventure. Yet, for many, their time is spent having their innocence threatened prematurely. For these children and their families, saving innocence rather than spending it becomes the priority.
I am reminded of our governmental CPS, a for-profit business that prioritizes the money over the welfare of families. These families are stalked and separated as children are sold and trafficked for gain. Children are shuffled to stranger's homes, on the streets, trafficked for sex by pedophilias, to prisons...and to an early grave.
Both parents and children endure emotional and psychological baggage. Feelings of guilt, anger, depression, despair, abandonment, loneliness, fear, and even suicide pester in their lives...weighing them down for a lifetime.
We have a new year, and a new beginning, unlike many of these families. We are in a position to be their friend as we protect, preserve and defend the innocence of families. By choosing this, these helpless hurting ones can better spend their time of childhood, rather than be vulnerable to the dangers that await to destroy it.
Again, it is a new year. Voiceless families need a fighting chance to live happy. Will you make a true commitment to defend innocence this year? Saving innocence is time well spent.
Happy New Year!
