Tonight I saw a really heart moving play about foster care and adoption put on by Family Christian agency. It just went into depth of the lives of some of these things that children really do go through! It ended in a heartwrenching, yet motivating way to PUSH us to do something, ANYTHING to help! They portrayed how there are ten-year-old kids that are still in diapers, NOT because they were BORN with a menal handicap, because of NEGLECT...emotional handicap... Our lil MJ was heading in this direction!!! Buuuuut THANK GOD for intervening! I can't STOP thanking God for what He did for my niece!!! "When God Gives You A Home!"
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Sooooo at the end of the play, They showed a boy, that was aging out of foster care and with no direction in life he writes his caseworker/mentor a letter saying that all he ever wanted was a forever home...a HAPPY HOME...but he NEVER got it and he didn't know anything else to do, except to go back to the parents he was taken from as a child. Then it shows him going to his parent's home, they have a meth lab, the father takes off his apron and hands it to the now 18-year-old son, then he hands him a baggy of white powder, and he begins his own life in a world of drugs.
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Then they talked about how no matter how hard you may try with one, you can't give up, you have to treat each child like there IS a hope! And it reminded me sooooo much of soul winning, as I said HERE, it can grow WEARISOME....buuuuuuut we can't give up!!! We can't, NOT get involved! We can't, NOT let it get to us...WE HAVE TO CARE!!! Verbal Bean says, "God doesn't care till we care!" LETS CARE YOU GUYS!!!
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Obviousley, we can't ALL be foster parent's or adopt a child!!! Buuuuuuut WE CAN DO SOMETHING!!!! First of all we can PRAY!!! IF You can't do ANYTHING ELSE... SERIOUSLEY PRAY!!! Second of all, there are other ways you can get involved, through tutoring, mentoring or volunteering!!! I felt like I would really like to be a mentor to someone...I connect very well one on one with people, God gave me the gift of a BIG HEART that LOVES easily...I know I can do this!!! Buuuuuuuut if you can't get involved with any of those ways at this time, I have just one thought that comes to my mind...SUNDAY SCHOOL KIDS!!! We can LOVE THEM!!! Just do your part with the Sunday School ministry at your own church...LOVE THOSE KIDS!!! Here below is something I wrote that I wanna share with you all...
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Do you ever wonder? It was just one of those days at work as a
nanny. I had spent all morning chasing the kids as they tore the house a part.
Finally, it was naptime. I put the little one down first in his crib. Then I
told Ella to pick out a short story for me to read to her before her nap. She
handed me Max Lucado’s book called, "Just
In Case You Ever Wonder." I rolled my eyes to myself, I had read
this story several years ago and was not at impressed by it. However, I was
tired and just figured I would get story time over with. I tucked the 5-year-old
girl into her cozy little bed, then sat on the edge and began to read to her…
Long, long ago
God made a decision- a very important decision. One that I’m really glad He
made. He made the decision to make you. The same hands that made the stars made
you. The same hands that made the canyons made you. The same hands that made the
trees and the moon and the sun made you. So I am just sitting there
like blah, blah, blah, whatever, totally not any more impacted by this story. It
continues…
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God made you
like no one else. If you looked all over the world – every city in every house –
there is would be no one else like you. No one with your eyes, no one with your
mouth, no one with your laugh. You are very, very special. And since you are so
special, God wanted to put you in just the right home. All of the
sudden I felt something tighten in my heart…
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God wanted to
put you in just the right home. Where you would be warm when it’s cold, where
you’d be safe when you’re afraid, where you’d have fun and learn about
heaven. I’m starting to feel choked up…
So, after lots of looking for just the right family, God sent you to me. And
I’m so glad he did. I could hardly contain myself as I continued
reading the story. It wasn’t the story so much in itself that was causing the
emotional response, but because I know some children, that can’t relate with
this story. I know some children, that don’t always have a warm place to sleep
at night. There are some children that aren’t safe in their own home.
♥Mary Frances :)
