Let The Children Speak…….

Last night in our small group meeting we were looking at the Resistance Stories of the Bible as Rachel Held Evans tells them with wisdom and beauty.  Recalling times when people were brave and empowered enough to dare speak up about injustices, sinfulness, and how God’s plan for their lives was much different than what they were experiencing.

We know how prophet’s rallying cries echoed across history,  but we were drawn to the stories of the young.  Whether a shepherd boy with slingshot, or three young men dancing in a fiery furnace, or a young Queen calling to task King Xerxes for his debauchery and treatment of women, the young have many times led us to a better place in the world.

So it was a foregone conclusion that we would pay  heed to the words of Sweden’s Greta Thunberg when she walked into the United Nations and facing the leaders of the world she said, “Shame On You!”  And shame on all of us who watch with anxious breath as the world’s weather gets crazier and crazier with scientific proof of the cause, we cling to our conveniences of plastic everything, throwing it casually away for our grandchildren to deal with one day!!

Let the children speak.  We just might learn something.