Angry and want to Smash Something

This is a letter to the children that I love. You may not even know who you are but you are probably under 50 years old. And some of you are just teen agers. You are my friends on Facebook, my friends from churches and the children of friends.

You are the ones who are fed up with Christianity. You are angry about all the hate and anger, the racism, sexism and injustice. The mass shootings and the reactions on both sides make you crazy in one way or another. The political officials all seem to you to be stupid or immoral or just plain horrible.

You are angry and you want to smash something. You want to yell and scream and you do. You want to curse all that you see that is wrong in the world, in this country, in religion.

I think I understand. I feel the same way. Really, I do. You are frustrated because for all your yelling no one is listening, certainly no one is doing anything.

Please take a moment to look at one lone nun in India who stepped out and fed the poor and dying. She could only help one or two, so that’s what she did. And she kept doing it over and over again until thousands and maybe millions were given dignity and love. Mother Theresa’s heart was broken by the disenfranchised. She and all of the Sisters of Charity together could not end all of the hunger and suffering in the world, but they made a difference to thousands and they continue to do that.

They do not scream and shout and curse the ones who do not help. They just continue to feed the hungry and give love and care to the dying.

Being angry and pointing fingers at the guilty ones, screaming, cursing and marching will not help. I am sorry it just won’t change anything. Maybe you or I cannot make a big difference in the world. Probably we can’t. But we can make a difference by doing the thing that we can to make a bad situation better where we can.

Please my precious friends, the anger and cursing is hurting yourself and not the ones that you are against. Find the way you can help make the situation better and do what you can with all of that energy.

Become the best person you can become! Do as much good as you possibly are able to do.