God is the Father of the fatherless
I lost another student today to the CPS system. That makes 5 of my precious students being there one day, gone the next. All five not the least bit trouble makers. I am a very passionate person. I love deeply, I give of my self fully, and I pray my way through the day to love the unlovable. 5 times this year. 5 times I have lost sweet students due to foster care. All of them fully emerged into the system......more years in it than I need to know. Some wanting desperately for there parents to get it together so they can come home, some praying their parents never see there face again, and then there are my two darlings that honestly have no one. So there faces are plastered on a CPS website with profiles telling there best attributes and promising that they will be good kids.....if you would just choose them.
I cried the first time I saw one of the girls, on the site, that is in my 1st period. She was there, 3 feet way from me and I then fully understood that she was an orphan. Alone.
The word "fatherless" in the Hebrew language is "yathowm"..... an unused root meaning TO BE ALONE, A BEREAVED PERSON, ORPHAN.
The darling girl I lost today entered my class after Christmas this year. She had very black eyeliner under her eyes....lots of it and thick. I honestly had never seen anything like it. We were just starting our "personality projects" and I asked her what picture best represented her.......she chose the darkest loneliest picture I had. I was not surprised because in art we are all a little weird........IN A POSITIVE WAY OF COURSE!!!!! Less than a week later, she walked up to my desk and confessed the picture in fact did not represent her..........the one with the Heavenly Angels did.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!!!
I am not exaggerating when I say that we must seize every opportunity to share Jesus, to show Jesus, to care. For our time is fleeting!!!
"A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is GOD in his holy dwelling.
God sets the lonely in families, he leads forth the prisoners with singing...." ps 68.5
"Do not move an ancient boundary stone
or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong;
he will take up their case against you." proverbs 23:10-11
I fully support the Child Protective Services! I hate that not all foster parents have hearts that follow Father. That not all homes are safe from sexual abuse, neglect, and out right cruelty. I can't change that. I can't adopt all my students, and I can't save the world.
BUT I DON'T EVEN NEED TOO! I SERVE THE ONLY GOD AND KING OF THIS WORLD! HE HAS PROMISED TO WATCH AND LOVE ALL CREATION! HE KNOWS EVERY FACE. EVERY FACE. HE KNOWS THEM ALL. As long as satan is free and in hard pursuit to leave us devastated........orphans will exist, fatherless children will be.
What I realized last night, as all these thoughts were haunting me, is that my role in all this....maybe your role in all this........IS PRAYER!!!!!! We pray for our children to be safe, to know our Father's deep love, for law and law enforcement to continue to protect and set these young minds free. For godly adults to answer the call of fostering children.
WE PRAY
WE PRAY FOR OUR ORPHANS HERE
WE PRAY FOR OUR ORPHANS IN OTHER COUNTRIES
WE PRAY
Calling on all of heaven to open up and rescue us!!!!!
thank you for letting me just speak my heart. I needed to get this all out. If I have offended anyone...I am sorry. Will you stop today and just say a small prayer for them?
I love you all!!!!!!!
"even the darkness is not dark to YOU. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to YOU." Psalm 139:12
I cried the first time I saw one of the girls, on the site, that is in my 1st period. She was there, 3 feet way from me and I then fully understood that she was an orphan. Alone.
The word "fatherless" in the Hebrew language is "yathowm"..... an unused root meaning TO BE ALONE, A BEREAVED PERSON, ORPHAN.
The darling girl I lost today entered my class after Christmas this year. She had very black eyeliner under her eyes....lots of it and thick. I honestly had never seen anything like it. We were just starting our "personality projects" and I asked her what picture best represented her.......she chose the darkest loneliest picture I had. I was not surprised because in art we are all a little weird........IN A POSITIVE WAY OF COURSE!!!!! Less than a week later, she walked up to my desk and confessed the picture in fact did not represent her..........the one with the Heavenly Angels did.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!!!
I am not exaggerating when I say that we must seize every opportunity to share Jesus, to show Jesus, to care. For our time is fleeting!!!
"A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is GOD in his holy dwelling.
God sets the lonely in families, he leads forth the prisoners with singing...." ps 68.5
"Do not move an ancient boundary stone
or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong;
he will take up their case against you." proverbs 23:10-11
I fully support the Child Protective Services! I hate that not all foster parents have hearts that follow Father. That not all homes are safe from sexual abuse, neglect, and out right cruelty. I can't change that. I can't adopt all my students, and I can't save the world.
BUT I DON'T EVEN NEED TOO! I SERVE THE ONLY GOD AND KING OF THIS WORLD! HE HAS PROMISED TO WATCH AND LOVE ALL CREATION! HE KNOWS EVERY FACE. EVERY FACE. HE KNOWS THEM ALL. As long as satan is free and in hard pursuit to leave us devastated........orphans will exist, fatherless children will be.
What I realized last night, as all these thoughts were haunting me, is that my role in all this....maybe your role in all this........IS PRAYER!!!!!! We pray for our children to be safe, to know our Father's deep love, for law and law enforcement to continue to protect and set these young minds free. For godly adults to answer the call of fostering children.
WE PRAY
WE PRAY FOR OUR ORPHANS HERE
WE PRAY FOR OUR ORPHANS IN OTHER COUNTRIES
WE PRAY
Calling on all of heaven to open up and rescue us!!!!!
thank you for letting me just speak my heart. I needed to get this all out. If I have offended anyone...I am sorry. Will you stop today and just say a small prayer for them?
I love you all!!!!!!!
"even the darkness is not dark to YOU. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to YOU." Psalm 139:12