A question of values

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 33, 7 February 1984, Page 10

A question of values

By what values do we run our lives or bring up our children? Are they sound and well tested or do they lack the foundation of good moral, physical and mental standards. Which one of us in the past few years has not remarked on the violence and crime that go on around us with increasing frequency. Most would agree that most of these troubled times arise in the home through lack of parental control or poor values or standards. What then of the future? What then of our children? What then of our great grandchildren? If our values and standards are being lowered or not taught in the home to

our children, by what values or standards will our great grandchildren be brought up under, what violence and crime will then be the norm? I read an article published in Britain which had carried out a survey among the unemployed in an industrial city. It was found by the survey that by the fourth generation those people did not care, know how to or want to work because the knowledge had not been passed on or shown to previous generations. I see a parallel in our moral and social values and standards. If good values and standards are not taught to our children in our homes then it appears that generations to follow us will have very few values and standards to live by. I ' shudder to think what the future holds for most of our grandchildren then. The basis of our values and standards have been taken from our Christian

heritage which over the last few years appears to have been eroded and bent to a point where just about anything goes. Perhaps it is time to be honest with ourselves and examine our values and standards again and go back to our Christian heritage. Where better than our Bible to find the values andstandards we need, to live full, happy and honest lives. God is love.

R.G.

Ellis