tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35990418.post7295327182055024668..comments2024-03-08T13:52:22.224-07:00Comments on LAJOY FAMILY: An Admitted Slippery SlopeCindy LaJoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16486626867331586704noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35990418.post-91929882040186013912012-12-18T18:07:03.495-07:002012-12-18T18:07:03.495-07:00continued from last comment....
In the meantime, ...continued from last comment....<br /><br />In the meantime, I agree with the commenter who posted after me about the violent games….as parents of many boys, my husband and I foster their God-given aggressive natures in positive ways – responsible hunting (including how to gut and skin an animal, etc.), wrestling with each other, LOTS of outdoorsy things – and have absolutely no human violence video or otherwise games in our household. And I do agree there are parts of our gun laws that need to change. And the mental health thing…..well, let’s just say that I have a lot of experience with it in my extended family and have personal reasons for my hesitations…it’s an awfully complicated and delicate issue deserving of good thought, prayer and care.<br />And, as you do so lovingly, we, as God enables us in our GREAT imperfections, teach and model to our kids, the value and grace of Jesus Christ for every human on earth. We drill into their impressionable minds and spirits words and prayers for them to follow Jesus and know His immeasurable love and purpose for each of them. That’s the best way we know to fight this battle – against them someday becoming lost souls like Adam Lanza, but also for them to have an eternal hope should they someday have to battle memories and/or “what ifs” from enduring a tragedy like Sandy Hook. And we will hopefully raise them to be great witnesses to the hope of Jesus for their generation….as we are all assured we will have trouble in this life….the question is, how will we deal with it, right?<br />Sorry my comment is so long….and scattered. I wish I could more deeply really read and process what you have written further but dinner and my kids are calling. In the meantime, know that I appreciate what you write and think and it does cause me to think about my views and actions, so thank you. I look forward to continuing to read about you and your family’s adventures through life! Oh and I always meant to tell you how badly I felt about your whole situation w/picking up Matthew from the AFA during the Waldo Canyon Fire time. Had we known you were coming here and had such trouble, we would have invited you to stay with us! But I only caught up on your chaotic week after the fact. We offered to many of our friends who had to evacuate on the Westside to stay with us but none wanted to….had better offers with less sizeable families/those who had more square footage per person. Haha, but I bet my kids and yours would have had a lot of fun together and you wouldn’t have minded blending your 5 with my 5 and sleeping on floors. Oh well…maybe someday we will meet.<br />Love,<br />Shan.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13986710438873369937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35990418.post-86810290119085024192012-12-18T18:06:43.917-07:002012-12-18T18:06:43.917-07:00Cindy,
How I wish I had more time to read your pos...Cindy,<br />How I wish I had more time to read your posts and write and, well, THINK like you do! Haha, as a busy mom, I'm lucky if I can pop in every so often but you are a fun gal to read as you are right - you don't fit into any boxes - conservative, liberal, etc. Refreshing! Anyways, such a heavy topic....thanks for responding to my comment. I can end up being too critical and short (when I’m strapped for time – which is almost always) sometimes so I apologize if my remarks were cutting at all. You have some very good thoughts and I agree that we should not fear confronting these issues. If we are becoming a society in which we cannot be responsible for our actions, yup, we deserve to get some of our freedoms taken away. Sucks, but hey, how else can we reasonably survive?!? There are so many questions, even about mental illness itself and its causes, prevalence, history. I had a moment of humor in the midst of your post when I read about how a driver's license can be taken away from an elderly person who cannot responsibly drive anymore as they did that with my over 90 year old grandfather and it hasn't stopped him yet. He keeps getting pulled over but the cops who've known him in his small town for forever but just can't bear to put him in jail. God forbid he hurt or kill someone someday, but it's an innocent enough-now example of how we can legislate back and forwards but those determined enough will perpetuate their evil sometimes can anyways. <br />A friend and I were conversing about the whys of the Sandy Hook tragedy - particularly WHY innocent 6 and 7 year olds?!?! And we both came to the same realization at the same time. No matter what we do eventually find out about the shooter's motivations, ultimately, it was Satan's hand moving him. Not to say at all he wasn't responsible for his own actions, but when Satan gets involved, it is the vulnerable who are targeted - the less sense and more heartache it causes, the better in Satan’s book. The fact is that we live in a fallen world. As this tragedy unfolded how many people in Syria lost their lives and suffered? It’s everywhere and it always has been. We need to reach out in love and definitely advocate for the right answers but also recognize that until heaven, we’re going to continue to run up against horrendous situations like this because of the broken people we are as humans. My family was personally affected by a tragic situation like this and God has helped us through His grace and through giving us acceptance that we can’t fully fix the situation and/or get all the answers this side of heaven. <br /><br />to be continued....https://www.blogger.com/profile/13986710438873369937noreply@blogger.com