Where Are They All?

An Original Work / January 30, 2020

Where are all the children?

Where’s the laughter and the joy?

Where’s the smiles and the twinkling eyes

Of the girls and of the boys?

Where’s the sunshine, moon and stars

That once shone, oh so bright?

Where’s the hugs and kisses of the mamas

As they tell their kids “goodnight”?

Where’s the Daddies playing ball

With their sons out on the field?

And the innocence of years gone by,

Lost beyond what they can feel?

Where’s the unity of families

Who are one, in love with Christ?

Reading Bibles to their children and

Saying prayers with kids at night?

Have we lost them to the world?

To the lusts of sin and flesh?

Are we sacrificing our children

On the altars of selfishness?

Are we handing them devices

With the internet in tow?

Hoping they’ll be entertained

As they sit and watch the show?

Are we seating them, front of the screen,

Hoping they’ll be babysat

While we get on our smart phones

And with our friends we chat?

Oh, Lord, help us, as your people,

That we may in You abide,

And that we’ll not neglect our children,

And to our idols be sacrificed.

We need to protect the innocence of children, as much as it is within our power to do so, realizing the world in which we now live.