Letters of appreciation

Because of the nature of this letter perhaps it will also speak Because of the nature of this letter perhaps it will also speak for others.

Sometimes in a life another life comes and becomes the extensions of ourselves

In our reality the gift of ourselves is the most empowering thing we can create because it allows us to continue.

Who is to say where anyone begins or ends in the tangled web that life weaves. It weaves our lives in mysterious ways and gives us the adventure of knowing and not knowing.

As the memories of my life come flooding back I remember a time I didn’t have children and the responsibilities of being an adult. (It’s a good thing that children and adults are conscious differently.) I can remember how a child thought and it was a good way. -- In a way better than an adult.

I was ignorant to what children really were at the time because I was too busy being one, I think even later after becoming an adult I didn’t really understand how precious they were.

What a privilege and responsibility it was to become a father—perhaps one of the greatest adventures in life.

Children are a blessing to everyone, because of their newness and their ability to be molded by adults, - they keep the experience of life new. They renew in adults the experience of themselves and because of that they are a treasure for all to observe, a precious product of life, a blessing that everyone can appreciate. Children are so impressionable, so vulnerable, especially to their parents, that’s why parents need to become more aware of everyone’s feelings especially the children. That’s why caring for them properly is so important. That’s why we need a full appreciation of them.

I remember those children that were given to me, the lives I was in charge of. They need to know that if there was anything I could change it would be my reaction to them. They caused no conflicts or problems; they were not responsible for any conditions or problems in the family. They were all intelligent healthy children whose only fault was the condition of life they came into. They were so perfectly formed they could have been molded to be anything they wanted to. I need them to know that so they realize that the relationship of their parents was not their fault. All I ask is for them to consider what they could not control and hopefully move beyond the boundaries that trapped them then.

Although I recognize where people are coming from when they say the parents are the greatest influence on children I don’t necessarily agree. —Because we all come out of the underlying sociological fabric that weaves all our lives.

In other words the environment has the greater implications on our lives and that includes the children. Because the society creates all the conditions we have to live in— but that doesn’t relieve the parent of their responsibility.

–Although I did enjoy the time I spent with my children I could have enjoyed it so much more if I had focused on what I had and all of us would have reaped the rewards of those efforts.

To all the parents and my children that have children --wake up -the gift and time only occurs once for each child, find a way to get the very most out of the experience, don't let it slip by, the time is irreplaceable.

The whole society will benefit from your sharing.

But my wish is for this letter to focus more on the future instead of dwelling on the past, which serves a less useful purpose.

To speak for our future and regroup our spirit in a way of knowing the value of what was to receive its blessings and not its bane, to learn how to really appreciate each other now.

Because we are the generations of massive change, we are the cutting edge of consciousness ---that is why we seem to be a society out of touch and in confusion, we are both victims and benefactors of changing values, placing us in a dilemma our predecessors couldn’t have imagined. We need to forgive ourselves for being caught in this change.

A change that may take us past fathers and sons, as we have known them

Perhaps we will have a different identification of what parents and children are.

Perhaps we will be what we could not be by becoming children of God in a different way.

To all the children that are still children and the parents of children that would like to have been better parents, may we all become good parents.

May we learn how to appreciate each other enough to stop the fractured relationship humans have always had.

In appreciation of all the children especially the ones I had and my grandchildren

Mayon J Jackson

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