"GOTCHA'!"

My friend, Carol, gave me this picture.  Great, eh?  Makes one feel good.

As a Grandma and Great-Grandma, it is what I want for the children I love....and ALL children...to feel THAT kind of nurturing.

I know, however, that all children do NOT feel this.

They do not have ANYONE to grab them and tickle them and hold them and help them to know that they are safe.

Just. Safe.

Of course, we all have different definitions of what 'safe' means.

I just read an article by a woman here in Detroit that argues for ALL people, children included, to carry a gun.

She believes this would make us all safe.

The article and her stance reminded me of another picture of Jesus with children.

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It is from a book entitled Raising Righteous and Rowdy Girls by Doug Giles.

Giles believes that Jesus would teach children how to USE A GUN.

Carrying the gun is scripturally correct, he says.

Jesus would do the same and would want our children to do the same so that they could be safe.

Just. Safe.

I absolutely cannot process this.

Too many children that I have worked with who have been orphaned or killed or jailed because of GUNS for me to believe that.

Guns did not make them safe.

Jesus with a gun would take ANY sense of safety away.

For me anyway.

But, I have said before that I believe I am in the minority.

So, I shall cling to that first picture and pray that there are a few folk out there who believe Jesus would NOT pick up a gun but WOULD pick up a child and say,

"GOTCHA!"

   

pssssst....if you agree, here is a good opportunity to be a 'world whisperer'...just sayin'...