I can teach you things,
but I cannot make you learn.

I can give you directions,
but I cannot be there to lead you.

I can allow you freedom,
but I cannot account for it.

I can take you to church,
but I cannot make you believe.

I can teach you right from wrong,
but I cannot always decide for you.

I can buy you beautiful clothes,
but I cannot make you beautiful inside.

I can offer you advice,
but I cannot accept it for you.

I can give you love,
but I cannot force it upon you.

I can teach you to share,
but I cannot make you unselfish.

I can teach you respect,
but I cannot force you to show honor.

I can advise you about friends,
but cannot choose them for you.

I can advise you about sex,
but I cannot keep you pure.

I can tell you the facts of life,
but I can't build your reputation.

I can tell you about drinking,
but I can't say "No" for you.

I can warn you about drugs,
but I can't prevent you from using them.

I can tell you about lofty goals,
but I can't achieve them for you.

I can teach you about kindness,
but I can't force you to be gracious

I can warn you about sins,
but I cannot make you moral.

I can love you as a child,
but I cannot place you in God's family.

I can pray for you,
but I cannot make you walk with God.

I can tell you how to live,
but I cannot give you eternal life.

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when they live in one dirty place after another because all of the money the parents get goes to drugs ?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when there is no food to eat because all the money the Parents have goes for drugs ?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when they have no where to live but in a big box and people walking by keep looking at them ?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when there are strangers where they live and them and the Parents are getting high and they don't know what will happen next, if they will get hit or laughed at?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when their Parents are comimg down from being high and they are abusive to the Child?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when they are left alone with no food and nothing to drink because their the Parents are out looking for their next high?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when you try to explain to them that Mommy and Daddy are sick and it is not their fault?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when the Child welfare agency comes and takes them away from their Parents?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when they have to go to school with the same dirty clothes on and no lunch and the other Kids laugh and make fun of them?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when Thanksgiving or Christmas comes and they see everyone else getting gifts and clothes and they have nothing because Mommy and Daddy spent the money getting high?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when they wake up on Christmas morning and there is nothing there not even a tree and they think that they were bad, that's why Santa didn't come?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when the Police come to arrest one or both of the Parents and get taken away?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when they are crying because Mommy or Daddy has left them alone for a long time?

Have you ever seen the face of a Child when they are so scared they can't move and just sit there and cry?