The Three C's to Overcoming Barriers that Lead to Aborted and Abandoned Destinies

~The 3 C’s that We All Must Come to Know ‘if’ We Truly Want to See the Truest Picture of Love~

1. C—Child:  Everyone comes into the world as a c—child.  Regardless of who you are or who you will become, this is the common point of entry for all humans.  Only Adam and Eve (from the record in Genesis) entered the world as adults.  Everyone comes through childbirth.  This simply means we are innocent and unknowing until we enter the next ‘c’… Culture.
    
2. C—Culture (or community):   This is where we can get it right or keep it wrong. If our culture is breeding what’s ‘true’ regarding the equality of all persons regardless of ethnicity, race, creed, color, and we lock it in as ‘truth’… this is good.  For many, these customs include choice of denominations, food, fashion and other preferences that can span for a lifetime.  The great challenge and often detriment is that these concepts often are limited and are overlaid with stereotypes and prejudices that have so often allowed divides to widen and thereby causing many possibilities to never manifest.  When we find out that a custom or cultural concept is wrong, we should be quit to admit it and work to eliminate them.  Oftentimes this is too difficult to overcome until we can truly identify and work daily to become the next ‘c’… Christian.
    
3. C—Christian:  This is the stretch but the ultimate landing place where ‘all of us’ can be seen as equal in the sight of almighty God, who created us all from ‘one blood.’   This is where we can truly have a love that takes us beyond where we were born as children (geographically and culturally) that unites us in the spirit of brotherly and sisterly love.  It’s the one place where love truly knows no color.  Yes, we all can see color (unless we are blind); but color simply says we are different, but it does not say we should be divided. Being different should never mandate that we be divided.  In its most applauded form, it gives glory to God who has such creative power to make us all alike but so uniquely created.

So, let’s bring up our children in the communities and cultures that reflect various experiences, styles, concepts and uniqueness BUT never in those misplaced and erroneous values that divide us and keep us from bonding in new and great friendships and relationships that can bring joy, peace and happiness way beyond our years.  C1 and C2 are real but it's C3 that makes us Real.