"To trust that God can reach places in the hearts of our children that we simply cannot reach ourselves". Thank you, thank you for writing such beautiful and sad piece but true piece :( Whenever I start feeling anxious, I start reseating the surrender prayer "Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything for me" I repeat it 10 times, other times I say "Jesus, I trust in you" Besides praying the rosary every day for my son and all the young adults like him
Very thoughtful! Not suffering goes to waste in the human existence. This realm is a place of expiation and spiritual development. But if a child is taught about transcendence spiritual things are less to feel confusion about themselves. So we need to teach our children to think less in themselves and get problematic about it and teach them to look around to the world and others, and nature. We are all part of a story written by a Creator, we belong to his creation not to ourselves, we must trust his plan instead to try to control every aspects of our lives and focus in love each other. This society is too materialistic and material things don't give you happiness, only for instant gratification but the emptiness of our soul is still there. So understanding that we are more than a body or a gender, that we have a soul and that we live forever, also that we have a purpose help humans to live meaningful lives. Look around, there is always somebody who can need us or need you, it doesn't have to be big things. Do little things in your daily life with big love and deep trust in our maker and learn to let it go when we have doubts about ourselves, it is never about us, at the end of the day people need to let all go specially the things that are more traumatic. Love without limits and understand that sometimes we will sufferer and we will not get what we want and that is our path, and our path is unique so it doesn't matter if we not conform to the fashion of the day or we are not beautiful to the standards of the society or we feel that we are not accepted, all this will go away, life is short. You just do your best with what you have be given. That is what we need to teach the young.
When your child has truly been captured resigning yourself to the brutal truth that they have ultimately exercised their free will it offers surrender. As wrong & harmful as it is, it is out of our control.
I feel guilty and sad all the time BUT as an adult, my daughter is ultimately responsible for her actions and she knows that. I usually end our conversation with ‘if that’s what you really want’ even if I don’t agree. She is fully aware of that. It’s still heartbreaking, though; what’s happening to her and what she wants to do.
“To trust that God can reach places in the hearts of our children that we simply cannot reach ourselves.” Trust and forgiveness .. in the end, the only way forward it seems to me.
This is well said, to a degree. First a parent has "no rights" when it comes to a child. They do have responsibilities and you explain the three core responsibilities really well. I would sum it up that parents lead a child. The child's free-will, like personal autonomy, only exists to the level and degree a parent allows for a minor to exercise it. The problem becomes state sponsored interference which violates the parents responsibilities and introduces notions such as "mature minor". There is no greater oxymoron.
This is well put. It is rough when parents didn't even understand the lay of the land out there and what to guide against (a cult promoted by the Medical Industrial Complex):
1) "American Girl angers parents with book teaching kids about gender expression
"The text discusses using pronouns such as “they” to describe oneself and declares that “Studies show that transgender and nonbinary kids who get help from doctors have much better mental health than those who don’t.”"...
"“Parts of your body may make you feel uncomfortable and you may want to change the way you look. … ‘That’s totally OK!”
The book later adds, “If you haven’t gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body’s changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identity.”
“You can appreciate your body for everything it allows you to experience and still want to change certain things about it,” the book advises."...
"“How sad that a book tells a child there are medicines to take to stop puberty or if parents won’t listen seek organizations that will, this is all gender-related,” one displeased customer said. “How sad this world is becoming that American Doll takes on the role (sic) of thinking they should give gender assignment advice in a book. Shame on you.”"
"The primary effect of Mellon cash is the creation of more academic jobs. At KU, the Mellon program funded a new trans studies professor. The Syracuse program hired a two-year postdoc in “Trans Diaspora Studies.” Earlier this year, Dartmouth University announced that it was hiring a Mellon Teaching Fellow in Transgender Studies.
This financial support appears to be a part of a broader strategy. For one project, aimed at training “emerging trans Indigenous creator[s]” at Simon Fraser University, the grant announcement explicitly identifies it as part of “the Mellon Foundation’s Trans Studies initiative.” While Mellon’s website makes no reference to such an initiative, Susan Stryker, a prominent trans studies advocate, described in a 2024 interview how Carolyn Dinshaw, Mellon’s senior program officer for higher learning, has made the burgeoning field a funding priority."
You are welcome. Thank you for reading... There is nothing organic about "trans" young people.
You might also want to be aware of what happened to Teen Vogue which is owned by Conde Nast (Jennifer Bilek thinks corporate owners that sold out to Pharma/Medical Industrial Complex and some fetished billionaires are a root cause). They hired MTF (AGP male editors) so no wonder they published all those GI articles:
"Lucy Diavolo head shot - Them
Lucy Diavolo
Lucy Diavolo is the News + Politics News Editor for Teen Vogue. She helped found the Transfeminine Alliance of Chicago and facilitates its regular meetings. She also plays bass in the Chicago-based band The Just Luckies."
"According to the LGBTQ Victory Institute, in November 2020, they and partners “were working with the transition team to field and identify potential candidates for appointed positions in the Biden-Harris administration,” the group continued, further explaining that their goals included pressing the Biden administration to have an LGBTQ cabinet member, an LGBTQ Supreme Court justice, transgender ambassadors, and that “openly LGBTQ people receive equitable representation among presidential appointees.”
Anyone not yet aware of what “pressing” means and how it is accomplished, feel free to read my articles about this here, and here. The pressing comes from financial clout via the medical-industrial complex. Arcus Foundation is an American LGBT NGO juggernaut whose founder is heir to a multi-billion-dollar medical corporation. Jon Stryker funds his LGBT NGO directly from his stock in the Stryker medical corporation. He is poised to profit from driving gender identity ideology and normalizing the myth that humans can change sex with technology. Arcus Foundation has funded Victory Institute over ten million dollars since 2004. Victory Institute’s sponsorship list looks like a who’s who in trans funding, including Jon Stryker (aside his foundation funding), Tim Gill as well as his Gill Foundation, Tides, Unilever, Pfizer (One of the largest multi-national biopharma corporations worth nearly 52 billion dollars and invested in gene therapy and genetics), RBC Capital Markets, a global investment bank providing services in locations spanning 70 offices in 15 countries across North America, the UK, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Google, Gilead, Comcast, AT&T, David Geffen, Jennifer Pritzker and David Bohnett, to name a few."
Thank you for sharing your encouragement. This is so true. The weight of knowing my son is suffering weighs heavy on us. We have done our best as his parents but we know there are places and times in his years with us that we disappointed him or failed him. We have sought his forgiveness where appropriate, but he remains silent. He has chosen a path that he believes is leading him to his “authentic and true self” but we all know that he is following a path that is leading him to much more pain, suffering, and destruction.
We pray, we wait and watch and prepare for the day he realizes he’s been listening to the lies of the enemy and turns from that destructive path to a path that leads him Home. Home to us and Home to his Heavenly Father. When that day comes, we want our hearts and arms to be held wide open for him. We are trusting God with our son’s return and with his very life.
Thank you for sharing. I have made many mistakes in parenting and in my own life that have brought us where we are now. You make valid points here though. I have to remind myself too that more is caught than taught and be the best role model I can. Thanks again for sharing.
Bittersweet is where I live. Feeling both all the way down to my core. The agony, brokenness, rage and despair. The joy, beauty, wonder and Truth. A taste of two eternities.
Your post reminded me of this old Andrew Peterson song: "You'll find your way"
"To trust that God can reach places in the hearts of our children that we simply cannot reach ourselves". Thank you, thank you for writing such beautiful and sad piece but true piece :( Whenever I start feeling anxious, I start reseating the surrender prayer "Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything for me" I repeat it 10 times, other times I say "Jesus, I trust in you" Besides praying the rosary every day for my son and all the young adults like him
Very thoughtful! Not suffering goes to waste in the human existence. This realm is a place of expiation and spiritual development. But if a child is taught about transcendence spiritual things are less to feel confusion about themselves. So we need to teach our children to think less in themselves and get problematic about it and teach them to look around to the world and others, and nature. We are all part of a story written by a Creator, we belong to his creation not to ourselves, we must trust his plan instead to try to control every aspects of our lives and focus in love each other. This society is too materialistic and material things don't give you happiness, only for instant gratification but the emptiness of our soul is still there. So understanding that we are more than a body or a gender, that we have a soul and that we live forever, also that we have a purpose help humans to live meaningful lives. Look around, there is always somebody who can need us or need you, it doesn't have to be big things. Do little things in your daily life with big love and deep trust in our maker and learn to let it go when we have doubts about ourselves, it is never about us, at the end of the day people need to let all go specially the things that are more traumatic. Love without limits and understand that sometimes we will sufferer and we will not get what we want and that is our path, and our path is unique so it doesn't matter if we not conform to the fashion of the day or we are not beautiful to the standards of the society or we feel that we are not accepted, all this will go away, life is short. You just do your best with what you have be given. That is what we need to teach the young.
Amen. Thank you
Thank you - so true
When your child has truly been captured resigning yourself to the brutal truth that they have ultimately exercised their free will it offers surrender. As wrong & harmful as it is, it is out of our control.
Amen to that!
I feel guilty and sad all the time BUT as an adult, my daughter is ultimately responsible for her actions and she knows that. I usually end our conversation with ‘if that’s what you really want’ even if I don’t agree. She is fully aware of that. It’s still heartbreaking, though; what’s happening to her and what she wants to do.
Love this
Keep praying in the battle
Beautiful! Thank you!
“To trust that God can reach places in the hearts of our children that we simply cannot reach ourselves.” Trust and forgiveness .. in the end, the only way forward it seems to me.
This is well said, to a degree. First a parent has "no rights" when it comes to a child. They do have responsibilities and you explain the three core responsibilities really well. I would sum it up that parents lead a child. The child's free-will, like personal autonomy, only exists to the level and degree a parent allows for a minor to exercise it. The problem becomes state sponsored interference which violates the parents responsibilities and introduces notions such as "mature minor". There is no greater oxymoron.
This is well put. It is rough when parents didn't even understand the lay of the land out there and what to guide against (a cult promoted by the Medical Industrial Complex):
1) "American Girl angers parents with book teaching kids about gender expression
By Isabel Keane
Published Dec. 7, 2022 Updated Dec. 7, 2022, 12:54 p.m. PST"
"The text discusses using pronouns such as “they” to describe oneself and declares that “Studies show that transgender and nonbinary kids who get help from doctors have much better mental health than those who don’t.”"...
"“Parts of your body may make you feel uncomfortable and you may want to change the way you look. … ‘That’s totally OK!”
The book later adds, “If you haven’t gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body’s changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identity.”
“You can appreciate your body for everything it allows you to experience and still want to change certain things about it,” the book advises."...
"“How sad that a book tells a child there are medicines to take to stop puberty or if parents won’t listen seek organizations that will, this is all gender-related,” one displeased customer said. “How sad this world is becoming that American Doll takes on the role (sic) of thinking they should give gender assignment advice in a book. Shame on you.”"
https://nypost.com/2022/12/07/american-girl-angers-parents-with-book-teaching-kids-about-gender-expression/
2) "How the Mellon Foundation Funds Trans Ideology
The philanthropy giant is pouring millions into “black trans pleasure” and “trans liberation in an age of fascism.”"
https://www.city-journal.org/article/mellon-foundation-trans-studies-ideology-funding
"The primary effect of Mellon cash is the creation of more academic jobs. At KU, the Mellon program funded a new trans studies professor. The Syracuse program hired a two-year postdoc in “Trans Diaspora Studies.” Earlier this year, Dartmouth University announced that it was hiring a Mellon Teaching Fellow in Transgender Studies.
This financial support appears to be a part of a broader strategy. For one project, aimed at training “emerging trans Indigenous creator[s]” at Simon Fraser University, the grant announcement explicitly identifies it as part of “the Mellon Foundation’s Trans Studies initiative.” While Mellon’s website makes no reference to such an initiative, Susan Stryker, a prominent trans studies advocate, described in a 2024 interview how Carolyn Dinshaw, Mellon’s senior program officer for higher learning, has made the burgeoning field a funding priority."
You are welcome. Thank you for reading... There is nothing organic about "trans" young people.
You might also want to be aware of what happened to Teen Vogue which is owned by Conde Nast (Jennifer Bilek thinks corporate owners that sold out to Pharma/Medical Industrial Complex and some fetished billionaires are a root cause). They hired MTF (AGP male editors) so no wonder they published all those GI articles:
"Lucy Diavolo head shot - Them
Lucy Diavolo
Lucy Diavolo is the News + Politics News Editor for Teen Vogue. She helped found the Transfeminine Alliance of Chicago and facilitates its regular meetings. She also plays bass in the Chicago-based band The Just Luckies."
https://www.them.us/contributor/lucy-diavolo
Plus, college campuses are not better now:
"PROF. JENKINS: My interaction with a ‘gender studies’ professor shows why open syllabi are needed"
https://www.campusreform.org/article/prof-jenkins-interaction-gender-studies-professor-shows-open-syllabi-needed/29423
You are probably familiar with Bilek's 11thhourblog.com
The Victory Institute is very concerning:
"Dr. Rachel Levine, The Victory Institute and the Myth of Diversity"
https://www.the11thhourblog.com/post/dr-rachel-levine-the-victory-institute-and-the-myth-of-diversity
"According to the LGBTQ Victory Institute, in November 2020, they and partners “were working with the transition team to field and identify potential candidates for appointed positions in the Biden-Harris administration,” the group continued, further explaining that their goals included pressing the Biden administration to have an LGBTQ cabinet member, an LGBTQ Supreme Court justice, transgender ambassadors, and that “openly LGBTQ people receive equitable representation among presidential appointees.”
Anyone not yet aware of what “pressing” means and how it is accomplished, feel free to read my articles about this here, and here. The pressing comes from financial clout via the medical-industrial complex. Arcus Foundation is an American LGBT NGO juggernaut whose founder is heir to a multi-billion-dollar medical corporation. Jon Stryker funds his LGBT NGO directly from his stock in the Stryker medical corporation. He is poised to profit from driving gender identity ideology and normalizing the myth that humans can change sex with technology. Arcus Foundation has funded Victory Institute over ten million dollars since 2004. Victory Institute’s sponsorship list looks like a who’s who in trans funding, including Jon Stryker (aside his foundation funding), Tim Gill as well as his Gill Foundation, Tides, Unilever, Pfizer (One of the largest multi-national biopharma corporations worth nearly 52 billion dollars and invested in gene therapy and genetics), RBC Capital Markets, a global investment bank providing services in locations spanning 70 offices in 15 countries across North America, the UK, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Google, Gilead, Comcast, AT&T, David Geffen, Jennifer Pritzker and David Bohnett, to name a few."
I needed to hear this today. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your encouragement. This is so true. The weight of knowing my son is suffering weighs heavy on us. We have done our best as his parents but we know there are places and times in his years with us that we disappointed him or failed him. We have sought his forgiveness where appropriate, but he remains silent. He has chosen a path that he believes is leading him to his “authentic and true self” but we all know that he is following a path that is leading him to much more pain, suffering, and destruction.
We pray, we wait and watch and prepare for the day he realizes he’s been listening to the lies of the enemy and turns from that destructive path to a path that leads him Home. Home to us and Home to his Heavenly Father. When that day comes, we want our hearts and arms to be held wide open for him. We are trusting God with our son’s return and with his very life.
Thank you for sharing. I have made many mistakes in parenting and in my own life that have brought us where we are now. You make valid points here though. I have to remind myself too that more is caught than taught and be the best role model I can. Thanks again for sharing.
Bittersweet is where I live. Feeling both all the way down to my core. The agony, brokenness, rage and despair. The joy, beauty, wonder and Truth. A taste of two eternities.
Your post reminded me of this old Andrew Peterson song: "You'll find your way"
https://youtu.be/NMn3ThuvGMo
Thanks for sharing the song! It’s what I needed today!