To the Bishop upon Mother’s Day. A Psalm of the HBB.

 

 

Blessed and happy are they who train their children aright,

Who knoweth when to use the rod and beateth them good and proper. Selah

 

Blessed are they who knoweth that spanking is not a cure-all but rather a tool,

And manage their children by love and not by force. Selah.

 

Alas, but they are few!

 

For the unwise parents, behold! they are an great multitude,

And their numbers as the sands of the sea.

 

I see them and their children at church,

I behold their conduct and art appalled. Selah.

 

For the children thereof scream and art unruly.

Behold, they wriggle in church and fuss most shamefully,

Yet are they not disciplined by their father;

Neither chastened by their mother. Selah.

 

Neither stoppeth their lawless conduct after service,

For behold, they do race about the church,

Like as though it were a circus;

And shout as it were an carnival;

Yet do not their parents restrain them,

Nor cause them to cease.

 

And if thou believest that it only goeth on at church,

Thou art deceived,

And thy common sense is far from thee.

 

For in the homes also, the children art in control;

And do run things, and do cause the parents to live

according to their children’s will. Selah.

 

And the parents do go along with the plan,

For they have no backbone;

And submit to the situation,

For they have no guts;

And realize not that the end thereof is the ways of death. Selah.

 

For the parents are foolish,

And realize not that the seeds of rebellion

are planted by their own hands,

and that the saplings of wickness

watered by their own fingers. Selah.

 

And behold, in the latter days,

When the youth do take their own path,

Nor hearken unto the voice of their parents,

Neither of the church, nor yet of God,

Still yet they wonder, Why.

And question the cause as to How.

 

Yet realize they not that they art the cause;

For they refrained from the rod;

And that they art much to blame,

For they knew not how to say, “No.”

 

Blessed are they which do raise their children in godly fear;

For they shall prosper,

and their children shall be a joy unto them

And not a grief. Amen.