{"id":305,"date":"2008-05-17T05:49:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/05\/we-must-change-beliefs-of-the.html"},"modified":"2008-05-17T05:49:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T05:49:09","slug":"we-must-change-beliefs-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/05\/we-must-change-beliefs-of-the.html","title":{"rendered":"We must change beliefs of the young"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are we telling our young people, what are we teaching our children, about life and how it is? Do we understand that children learn more from our actions than from our words? If we want a newer world for our children, we have to do what it takes to stop them from re-creating our old one. <\/em>And that <\/em>begins with us stopping the modeling <\/em>that we are doing.
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\nNOTE: Saturday is Prose & Poetry Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of m. Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Silent Sacred Holy Deeply: Heart.<\/em>
\nFor this week’s prose we offer…the fourth in a series of excerpts from The New Revelations<\/em>…
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\nNOTE: This excerpt takes the form of a dialogue with God. In last Saturday’s entry, God was telling humanity that if we are not careful, our own youth will undo us, because of the beliefs we have passed on to them. The dialogue picks up there…
\nSo we must change the beliefs of the young.<\/p>\n

Yes. Yet that cannot happen unless you change the beliefs of those who are teaching the young. And that means all of you. For you are teaching your young not merely in schools, but in every moment of their lives, as they observe you, their role models, living your lives.
\nThis is something you must understand: your whole life is a teaching. Everything that you think, say and do instructs another.
\nDo you imagine that others do not know what you are thinking? Is it your idea that they are not listening to what you are saying? Are you hoping that they are not watching what you are doing?
\nYoung people, especially, are eager to learn about life, and they learn the most about life from life itself. And they intuitively know this. That is why they observe so closely. Young people miss nothing. You think you are kidding them? Think again.
\nThey see the fear. They see the anger. They see the hypocrisy. They see the saying of one thing and the doing of another. And yes, they even know pretty much of what you are thinking. More than you think they know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we must change our beliefs before we can expect the beliefs of our offspring to change.<\/p>\n

Yes. And if you do not, you will stand by and watch your young do unimaginably terrible things\u2014and wonder where they could have ever gotten such ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like the young people who took a gay college student named Mathew Shepherd to a lonely stretch of country road outside of Laramie, Wyoming a few years ago, tied him to a cow fence, brutally beat him and left him there to die.<\/p>\n

Like those young men, yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They felt he deserved what they did to him.<\/p>\n

Yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They didn\u2019t even feel that what they were doing was inappropriate.<\/p>\n

No one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now there is an enormously important statement.<\/p>\n

It is. So let\u2019s repeat it.
\nI said\u2026
\nNo one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what we have to do is change our model of the world.<\/p>\n

Exactly. That is what I have been saying here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And we have to change people\u2019s beliefs, because that is what their model of the world is based on.<\/p>\n

Exactly.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our offspring are simply mimicking us. All people are just imitating each other. We are all just doing what we see each other doing.<\/p>\n

Do you know what one mirror said to the other mirror?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all done with people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nIf you experience that you received benefit this excerpt from The New Revelations<\/em> you are going to love Happier Than God<\/em>, the newest book in the CwG cosmology. Described as “a Master’s Guide to Spiritual Awakening,” this extraordinary new work has just been released and is available now. Click on the Happier Than God icon at the right of this blog page for more info, and embrace one of the most empowering books you will ever read.
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\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/strong><\/em>
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\nAs is the case with Us,
\nI make, and You break asunder
\nwhatever comfort I had
\nconstructed.
\nNever certain
\nwhat You want from Me;
\nbelieving all I am told
\nabout how it is that
\nLife is supposed to be Our Unfolding Joy
\nI cower, sometimes
\nGod
\nin the corner, like an animal
\nwho doesn\u2019t understand the thunder;
\nwho doesn\u2019t understand the lightening.
\nWho doesn\u2019t understand, Enlightening.
\n(I Cower, Sometimes – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved)
\nFor more of the work of this new poetic voice you are invited to visit www.mclairepoet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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