When a child enters the world…
When a child enters our world it is not uncommon that they be in therapy by four years of age.
Cutting themselves by 12.
And swinging from a rope by the age of 15.
If you want to understand the atrocities our world is capable of look no further than what it does to many children.
And how it makes them feel.
But despite this, catholic education seems reluctant to embrace the life-centred approach to education – giving life what it needs, not what it benefits us to give it – while repeatedly telling me, ‘Nothing is going to change.’
And ‘it is already too far gone.’
Or, in what I believe is the ultimate betrayal of our children, just as it is the ultimate betrayal of life, ‘It’s a business!’
The ‘It’s a business’ excuse is the same one that can be applied to every economic centred action that led to suffering or trauma for any aspect of life – be it the earth, the ocean, the forests, the animals, the people, the air…the everything.
If children with broken minds, scarred bodies and the secret desire to end it all is not enough to motivate change in our world and in the world of education, then it truly is the obscenity God – or life – believes it to be.
Every child belongs to God.
That we have created a world that has made what should be one of the most light and liberated aspects in human being’s life, one of the most hazardous, demonstrates just how abusive our world is of God’s life.
Yes, we should be asking, ‘How can we prevent more youth suicides?’
But this is a secondary question to the one we should actually be asking.
What we should be asking – what I am asking, what conditional expression is asking, what God is asking and what life is asking – is, ‘Why do so many children want to end their lives in what should be the most carefree period of that life?’
And, ‘what is it about the world kids are living in that makes them choose to cut and harm themselves?’
The answer, of course, is simple.
The world.
The world and the attitudes and behaviours it values and embraces, have become the attitudes and behaviours education values.
Never mind the suffering of the children – insert ‘life’ for other industries – as long as we get our marketing right, as long as we appear to be inspiring, and as long as we are ticking off our business and administrative targets all will be well.
Sure.
For the school maybe.
But for the children?
I spoke to a mate of mine recently, a counsellor in education, and he said, ‘you would not believe how many kids I speak to who are wanting to kill themselves’.
The ‘Phusion Living’ mission, which is the conditional expression mission, and the goal of The Reconciliation Project is to end the ‘world’ as it is, so we can collectively embrace a life-centred approach – think Christ-centred for Catholics and Christian – to all things.
Not as we might want to adopt a life-centred approach.
But as life has told us to adopt a life-centred approach.
Or – as God has.
For they are one and the same.
It is the goal of conditional expression not just to prevent more suicides in children – and adults for that matter – but rather to create a world where people don’t want to choose such an option in the first place.
I’ll leave you with a passage from one of the latest books sourced in the Word of God – which is the Word of life – and conditional expression.
‘But a child should never be attacked by someone telling them what they should be, or that anything beneath greatness and high achievement in life is inadequate.
Because it will be inadequate.
And when a child begins to feel inadequate, self-loathing and hatred are never far behind.
The benchmark for love and adoration in our world is aesthetic beauty and high achievement.
And we are witnessing what happens to those who believe what they are, falls well short of the benchmark.
I work with a beautiful soul who spent years starving herself to try and overcome being tall. And yet, basketball is her passion.
She was born for it.
But the world attacked her.
In our world, even many of those who have been able to tick both boxes – that of aesthetic beauty and high achieving – believe they are still well short of the mark.
Living in a state of inadequacy.
And I am talking about children.
Life’s most beautiful and fragile demographic.
The component of life that should be the lightest and most liberated is under attack by our world.
And by the world of education.
The industry that should protect them from an abusive world is playing its own role in the abuse.
Children ought not be told they should be the ‘best version’ of themselves.
They should be taught that caring for life as it has asked to be cared is their greatest purpose.
And that being born is the reason to celebrate. Not to mourn.’
22 Days of God and the Fight for Life | Day 9 Pages 82-3
In every book of God’s contemporary Word and revelation I have recorded, children feature heavily.
I have cried God’s tears when it comes to the state of our children. And it gives him – which means it gives life – great anguish to see where we have led them today.
In God’s eyes, the need for a school to meet its economic targets pales in comparison to its responsibility to care for our children.
And when I refer to care here, I also include our management of the beliefs, ideas and attitudes we pass on to children, when it comes to understanding the true nature of the human experiences.
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