What would you do if your daughter disappeared?

Some may think that that doesn't happen in the US, only in other countries. We live with the idea that our country is secure, but it isn't always. Mollie Tibbets is a 20 years old college student from the small community of Brooklyn, Iowa. She has been missing for four weeks. Police, the authorities, families, and the community there are doing their best to find and return her home safely, but it's as if she vanished from the earth. Can you imagine her parent's pain, not knowing anything about their daughter's whereabouts?

But, how can something like this possibly happen in this country? Probably one of the main problems is that we think we live in a safe country; school year is going to start and parents have to live with the nightmare of a possible school, college, or university shooting. Insecurity is a reality in the United States and we need to accept it once for all. We need to ask ourselves as a society: what can we do to avoid others students being harmed by others in any way? We know what politicians do when a mass shooting happens: talk, talk, talk; but they don’t have the courage to combat the issue of insecurity in our country from the root.

Where does the problem of insecurity begin in our society? Easy question, and easy answer: the family. Nobody is born to be bad or to do something bad. Human beings are born good, but some of them became bad people who steal, kidnap, kill, sell drugs, etc.; but no one was born to live that way, they were made by their family and by the social environment in which they lived and grew up in. Here is the important point: who is taking care of our children? Many years ago, mothers were at home, while men were working outside; but today mom and dad are outside, and children are growing up with someone else. If parents aren’t with their children, who is educating them? Parents are their children's first, principal, and best teachers, nobody else. And that is not new for anybody, but the consumer society in which we live today made it so both parents work outside, not taking care of their children.

The definition of insanity would be to continue doing the same thing expecting different results. We reap what we seed. You don’t need a Master Degree to understand this reality; however, we have thousands of smart people in our country, but we aren’t doing what we have to do to change the direction of our society. How many mass shootings do we need? How many girls need to be kidnapped? Do we need to organize as families, churches, towns, cities, states to stop what is destroying our society?

Children are consuming pornography from an early age; because it is easier for many parents to buy a smart phone, a computer, install a television in a room, and let their children watch whatever they want. It's no secret that there is a drug epidemic in our society, but some people believe that drugs are harmless, but you don’t need to be really smart to understand that this is a lie. As President John F. Kennedy once said, “Our society is psychological and spiritually ill." Who can deny this? Now it's your turn to do something to take care of your children and help to protect our society. 

Pray for Mollie Tibbets