I truly love my daughter’s generation (thirty somethings), well I don’t love all of their music (I can’t believe I am my parents)…I have enormous respect for their mantra…”I don’t have all the answers and neither do you.” I love how they can smell a “fake of any kind” within seconds! They live in a culture that isn’t buying into Christian consumerism, they are not for sale. They do not want to be entertained at Church (God knows there is enough entertainment in social media). They want to know God, experience His real presence and find worship in their own hearts that is not manufactured for one day a week on a stage. I just love that! I will say it absolutely terrifies me as well. The shift in our world to “postmodernism” makes me feel like I am floating in slow motion in water through a world I recognized but it is slipping away. Part of this exhilarates me and part of it so uncomfortable that my heart races, I am anxious, and will wake in the middle of the night and pray. I pray that they won’t throw the baby out with the bath water in some kind of reverse Dogma.
This tension is a must in the relationships of life. The relationship with the God who made us right down to the people who love us for better or worse. The thing is Jesus and “tension” go hand in hand. If we study his life we will see that His “absolutes” were few but man were they TENSE! So simple yet so “in your face”…”hear the word of the Father and do it and love others and forgive everyone else”…are you kidding me?
God intensely loves my children’s generation. No one wants more for our kids than God does! I believe that. For me it is evident in the women my girls have become in spite of me. Their grace and graciousness continue to astound me.
So when I feel alien in a postmodern world I look at them. At the Jesus in them and I take a deep breath and I know that Jesus made a way for every generation to find Him, to come to Him, and that through Him they will find the presence of God’s peace. So when I am not panicking or praying I am cheering them on with all my heart, my love, and my being to “press on” to love Jesus, love others and forgive all.
Jill Autrey Dorman 
Wow! That could have been from my own head regarding my desires for my kids. But I don’t think I’ve thought it through as far as you have, so I’d not have the creative verbage you did. Well done!
Spirit of God, grant us your perspective with regards to the generations that follow. We entrust them to, whether we discern your purposes or not. Help us in our lack of trust when it doesn’t look like what we would have planned.
Wow! That could have been from my own head regarding my desires for my kids. But I don’t think I’ve thought it through as far as you have, so I’d not have the creative verbage you did. Well done!
Spirit of God, grant us your perspective with regards to the generations that follow. We entrust them to you, whether we discern your purposes or not. Help us in our lack of trust when it doesn’t look like what we would have planned.
Thanks friend! Yes at times I feel scared that God’s Word won ‘t get taught but I KNOW that is a lie!!! My grandchildren and children are forever on the Holy Spirit’s agenda because God does not change!