THE WOMAN WHO ENCOURAGED 'DEATH'

We live today for the future. Yet when we meet the future, it punishes you for the sacrifices and neglects of today. A man goes hungry in order to save a little for his children. He develops ulcer and it haunts him for life.  A woman goes out in the cold for her children to survive. Yet the future kills her with pneumonia.

We give birth to children and prepare them to be wise worldly. Grade one schools where millions are paid as school fees. Grade one vacation in the States, Europe and Asia. We buy them toy guns and cars so they can learn quickly how to defend themselves. We take them to parties so they can associate with people of their own class and possibly they can initiate some dating and relationships.

When we take them to church, it is usually only on Sundays and for one purpose: TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS

YES it is to FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. For we never advise them to follow the tenets of Christianity. We rather indirectly and sometimes directly ask them to follow the tenets of SELFISHNESS and worldliness. 

For when he comes second in his class, all you do is to ask him whether Chika the girl that came first has two heads. You call that encouragement. Yes it is but only an encouragement to unhealthy competition and hate. Next term, Chika becomes a mate to hate and compete with, and not a mate to befriend and love. You tell him no one remembers who came second. But then you forgot that the Adam who came second is the one who is now adored and glorified as the Son of God.

We preach success at all cost to our children forgetting the consequences that come with some unhealthy determination: hate, selfishness, back-stabbing, submission to sexual slavery, murder, cover-ups and lies. 

We advise them to save their lives first in every circumstance and that God will understand. 

Then came this woman. She had seven sons. And all she did was to encourage them to die cruelly. She brought her children up in just one way: to respect, love and fear God and to keep to his tenets. She encouraged them to die so they can live and die no more. Even when she was left with just one and was asked to admonish him to embrace worldly life, she gave him more reasons to die. 

My point: The best gift you can give a child is love of God and neighbour. And when your child comes second or even last in his class, don’t give an encouragement of hate. After all, the head of the apostles was a man who worldly was an olodo. He even asked someone to write his Epistles for him. Oh, so you don’t know? Why do you think only Mathew, Mark, Luke and John wrote the gospel? And the head of everything that happened managed just two small epistles?

photo credit: traditional catholic priest