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Greetings for a Happy Mother's Day!
From: Webmaster (webmaster@AKidsRight.org)
This is a message from a mailing list, members@kids-right.org http://www.kids-right.org/ To unsubscribe from this list at anytime, send email to Majordomo@kids-right.org with the following 1 line in the BODY of the message (Subject is ignored). unsubscribe members ====================================================================== Good Mothers, >From all of us who are members and associated with AKidsRight.Org, our best wishes for a Happy Mother's Day! A special greeting to those of you who may not even see your children today. A special greeting to those of you who may not even have received a card from your little ones because your former spouse just doesn't care and is blind to your value as a parent. A special greeting for all those "awkward" moments this Holiday can bring: "Did your kids send you flowers?", "I got a beautiful card from my daughter, how about you?", "We are all going out for dinner tonight, and you?" On this very special day, please remember, yes, they can take away your children -- but only you can give them your dignity. We may not be perfect, but that does not mean we don't have a God given "right" to participate as an equal parent in our children's lives. A SPECIAL note, in response to our recent message about visiting our legislators after Mother's Day (http://www.AKidsRight.Org/actionb_syr), we got the following message, brief and to the point. ======================================= Mothers are vengeful, hateful creatures. This so-called "Mothers Day" should be abolished. I would never do anything to help a mother. ======================================= WOW, can you believe this? How many of us have at times begun to feel this way (perhaps replacing Fathers for Mothers?). How badly do you have to be kicked by the system before this happens to you? Maybe a "repeat" message from last year can't say it any better. --------------- About God & Faith & Mother's Day, a personal perspective This is John Murtari (jmurtari@thebook.com). I help create a lot of our messages, sometimes folks question the "faith" slant in what I say. Please understand I'm not trying to "convert anyone to Jesus" as you read these messages or the web site. Faith is a deeply personal thing. Honestly, and probably like many of you, I'd like to believe but at times I am more an "agnostic" (one who questions the existence of God). To be quite honest I'm 44 years old -- faith has become a bit of a habit. If I had watched the pain my son has experienced in my early 20's -- I don't know where I'd be now. If I would believe very much at all. So please don't get mad at me for spreading the "opiate of the masses" as Karl Marx would say. Just take it at face value -- someone trying to share his perspective on life. I am often accused of not being "practical", of letting people "walk over me", or even worse -- of subverting the whole "movement". What I try to share, in the moments of life when I do "believe" -- is a way for us to change the system, to regain our rights as parents, based on the ultimate reality, the ultimate pragmatism -- that of faith in a Loving God. ----- A bit "long winded" of a thought ---- I am a former Air Force Pilot, a graduate of a military Academy. I was trained to "kill", not out of pleasure or revenge, but out of duty. It may come as a surprise to those not familiar with the Military tradition, but I was never taught to "hate" the enemy. Even though we were going to be pilots, we were trained in bayonet combat (and please don't try this at home and forgive the graphical nature, the purpose will be clearer below) -- an upward thrust of the knife into your opponents chest, right below the sternum, penetrating their diaphragm, then moving in a violent slash downward through the tender abdomen, splitting the liver, intestines, and several major arteries -- all the work of several seconds. With that imagery in mind -- Let me share with you one of the most amazing sermons I ever heard from a Military Chaplain. "Some day you might be locked in hand to hand combat with the enemy. Each fighting for for your families, to defend what you believe. It might even happen that you draw your knives and spill each others blood while locked together in an embrace -- in a ballet of death. You might then both awaken in eternity, still in each others arms. It would be true -- 'the spirit never dies'. You would be surrounded by family. What Joy! What Happiness there would be then! I'm sure you would both hug each other. In a moment, all your questions and doubts would be answered. You would know. You wouldn't even need to apologize for spilling his guts -- it was just duty..... But suppose you had really hated that person in life, thought of them as a subhuman monster -- the kind of emotions that cause military massacres, men acting as animals -- then you might owe him an apology for your foolishness -- and of course they would accept. . . . .. Let's try not to be that way." Good Mothers, Good Fathers -- Let us try not be that way! How many of you right now don't have your children (you know how that pain feels in your gut)! How many of you would like to 'eviscerate' your former spouse so they could feel that same pain? PLEASE, remember the ultimate reality -- they are your brother, they are your sister. Yes, in eternity, you will be together with the Judge's, with the Lawyer's. Yes, disagree, and stand up for what you believe in -- but remember who they are. Remember what you will say to them in eternity -- and what maybe they will say to you. Don't think in terms of "getting even" or about "revenge" -- just want to be with your children. Jesus of Nazareth used to preach "turn around, the Kingdom of Heaven is here." -- if we could make ourselves feel that way toward others -- it would truly be here. If we could only believe for long enough. ================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list at anytime, send email to Majordomo@kids-right.org with the following 1 line in the BODY of the message (Subject is ignored). unsubscribe members
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