Teach Your Children Well

“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.   Joel 2:28-32

Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. So from that day on they plotted to take his life.   John 11:49-53

we were going to change the world,

a new society,

a great experiment,

we were different,

we knew more,

we knew better,

we were the solution,

not the problem;

make love not war,

tune in, drop out,

hell no, we won’t go,

rebels with a cause,

defenders of the righteous,

keepers of a higher standard,

a new code;

we became draft dodgers and activists,

poets and musicians,

stock brokers and analysts,

doctors and lawyers,

anything but our mothers

and fathers,

we became consumers,

we became users,

we became takers;

we became more of the same;

hypocrites within a world

of hypocrites,

masters of enlightenment

without light,

monsters disguised as

children of peace,

dogs licking up

their own vomit,

white-washed sepulchers,

dry bones,

sheep without a Shepard,

we fooled the world,

we fooled ourselves;

we became the future;

we consumed until there was nothing

left to consume,

we took until there was nothing

left to take,

we pointed our fingers,

we blamed the man,

we blamed the over thirty crowd,

only to realize we had become the man,

we were the over

thirty crowd;

it was all about us,

the ‘me’ generation,

gods of our

own making;

we taught our

children well.

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