Chapter 2
The Rebellious Young Boy
By Ernie Knoll
January 5, 2020
In my dream, I watch a mother who is shopping in a grocery store. She continues to keep her eyes on her young son who is about 6 or 7 years old. He stays close to his mother, but then he tests her to see how far he can go in the distance away from her. Next, I see her husband approach her. He puts his arm around her and kisses her. Then she does the same. In the moment of that brief greeting, the boy has now taken advantage to wander a distance from his parents.
The father quickly moves toward his son, calling him by his full name, and telling him to stay where he is. Other people turn quickly to see who the father was addressing. Many move out of his way as if a parting of the Red Sea by Moses. The son has a look of being caught and stands in his place. The father who approaches is not just a father but also a daddy. I quickly recall the saying of how, “Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy.”
Grabbing the son by his right hand, the daddy lifts him off the ground to where his toes gently touch the ground. The daddy opens the palm of his hands and begins to spank his child for disobeying what he was told to do. The daddy reminds him during the spanking of how he was told to stay next to his mother’s side and not wander off.
After observing the daddy administer six spanks, I stop to think that the child is six years old. The father lowers the crying child back to stand flat on his feet by his side. He looks up to see many with cell phone cameras to record the whole incident.
A middle-aged woman walks over to the father and states she is the principal of a local school. She says how the father should be arrested for administering corporal punishment on the child. She says that Child Protective Services needs to be alerted and that an immediate home visit is required to take place immediately. She starts saying for someone to call 911.
While holding his son’s hand, the father turns and addresses those holding their phones to video record the whole incident. He begins by stating that this is the problem. He says that we are looked down upon for raising our children the way we are supposed to. Too much political correctness has entered into the veins of society. Society has wandered too far, based on the principle instituted as a people, of the people, for the people. We have strayed to be a people based on the standards of living as to what is politically correct.
The man turns as if to speak to all now standing to record what he states. All the time he holds his son by his right hand. I notice he has his son on his left side. In a very calm yet smiling face, he continues to give a non-planned message to all that would be spread over many platforms of social media. He continues….
It was Abraham Lincoln who addressed the people in a message. And what is Lincoln’s message when he said that government is of the people by the people and for the people?
Lincoln explained that it is the job of the living to continue their fight. Abraham Lincoln said:
“… that these dead shall not have died in vain,”
in their efforts to give America,
“a new birth of freedom,”
and so that the government,
“of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
It is a people based on the truth from the Bible.
It is a people who teach with a Bible in one hand and proclaim in truth the example given in Proverbs 23:13-14.
“Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”
It is a people who live by the words of Deuteronomy 6:6-7.
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”