Clean Slate

The popular author, Stephen Covey, correctly observed, “So often the problem is in the system, not in the people. If you put good people in a bad system, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” If this is true to corporations and organizations,
this can be true also to families. We are not born bad nor are we born good. We are born into a wonderful, caring and loving families. Others are born into families that are broken and some are raise with one parent because the other one is working abroad. Some are born out of wedlock or what they call single parent. Some are born into wealth and privilege while others see the light of day in the filthy slums. Some are educated, and have insightful parents who carefully nuture and guide their children into adulthood. Others are unfortunate because their parents are insensitive and unloving. The result of which, children grow up without discipline, without character and without even morals. The problem isn’t in the kids but it’s in the family and the environment which they are raised. The environment has great influence on us. Even if some come from a loving and caring family their children turned into vices such as drugs because of peer pressure.This simply proves that Covey’s observation about good people locked into bad system is also true about good kids trapped in bad environment. There are good kids out there who are stuck in environments that crush their spirit and drag them into all kinds of messy situation. Life is sometimes or oftentimes unfair, especially to children. They become victims of circumstances in their lives which they don’t have the capacity to cope up. Children are raised in good earth, others are thrown into rocky, dry land where they are force to grow up and face the harsh realities of life.

There are those children who are allowed to actualize their potentials while others are trapped in a cycle of emotional and moral degradation. What parents need to know is that they are answerable to God if they do not care for their little ones whome they are in charged with. And when we ask God for justice, that is what parents will get if they maltreated their children God has given to them.