Joshua

“Cuvintele „te iubesc” fac același lucru - ele sunt modelate de trecut, celebrează prezentul și dau glas speranței în ce privește viitorul.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“În mijlocul schimbării și al transformării, ne dăm seama că pe măsură ce înaintăm în vârstă, avem mai multă nevoie de cineva mai mare decât noi care să ne redea ceea ce am pierdut.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“In the 1950s kids lost their innocence.They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term—the generation gap. In the 1960s, kids lost their authority. It was the decade of protest—church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting.Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it. In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion . . . It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference. In the 1980s, kids lost their hope. Stripped of innocence, authority, and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future. To bring it up to date, I have added two more paragraphs: In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world. In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“It’s odd God.
Time’s shoeless feet
sneaked up on me
and caught me by surprise. The days of youth I knew so well
are gone with the blink of an eye.
Innocent play and laughter,
tire swings and fun,
those days were too soon ended
when I thought they’d only begun. Backyard friends were many
Worries and fears were few.
Hopes and dreams were not yet dashed.
But life as it was then is through.
No longer tree swings,
now they’re blowouts
that complicate schedules and work
as I recklessly race down the freeway
in search of a paycheck and perks. How I long for the years of my childhood,
when life was uncluttered and free.
Perhaps there’s a way to reprogram my goals
and capture the me that was me.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder