Wednesday, June 3, 2009

From Zacapa Guatemala.

Its just not right that China has to lay in bed in the sweltering heat with small bugs on her eyelashes like a horse or cow. It is just not right that she lays there caught between exhaustion from pain and intermittant wild scratching of her head to tame the lice. ITs not right that the bigger kid jumped on her and broke her leg and now is left on the bed crying endlessly. God be with this child. Oh God enact justice and and show her love. How else will she see love Oh God?

God its not right that Darwin sits beside the couch crying. His face crumpling up shedding tears of anguish and misery. God he is only nine years old and is dealing with so much more than any precious child should. God he keeps screaming ¨Quiero ir a mi casa, quiro mi mama¨ over and over and over again. All day long. When I was a child and misbehaved, my parents disciplined me thorugh love. Yet he misbehaved and his sister took him to the orphanage to live. To bad his love had conditions on it. God he cannot be consoled. Even the kids are trying to console him but is isnt working. And today is only day five of living here between these walls of this place. There are many more to come. God I can still hear him crying.

God what about the baby brought out of incest into the ophanage. The dad won´t even sign the papers to realease him for adoption, even though he never visits. God this world needs justice.

What about the baby found in a bar alone?

What about the babys found with their prostute mother while she was doing business by the local police??

God when will justice be served? When will they have a voice? God when will they know true love?

When a kid cries, mommy is supposed to come running. Mommy is supposed to come and pick her up and hold her and kiss her and tell her that she will love her no matter what.

God I am broken. God guard these children. Speak for them. Hold them in your arms. God heal them oh God. Lord they are demolished crushed and abandoned. Reach out to them. Extend your mercy. Hear there cries! Bring them new life through your son. God the older boys have hearts that are so calloused. You can see it in there faces and eyes. Even the babies blankly stare back at you with empty eyes of hopelessness. Jesus Christ is the only hope for them. Everyone else has abandoned them. Take out their hearts of stone and give them hearts of flesh.

God I trust them to you. God of all time, you know everything.

Many of them are a product of someones negligence, sin, lack of resources, desperation and are only seen as an obstacle or hinderance. Some of the parents are so needy and are broken that they cannot even provide for their own children. God be God. I am useless. God we are all products of sin which means we are broken and needy.

Soften their hearts and restore them. They are beautiful gifts from you.

Please please join me in praying for each of them.

3 comments:

  1. As a mother of two Guat tots, this saddens me. I knew these kinds of things go on, but, the really sad thing is that adoptions in GT are closed right now. So many children like the ones you are discribing......so many loving families here, & elsewhere around the world with arms open wide & no one to fill them. :(

    Father, please be a comfort to these precious ones!

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  2. I know what you have seen. I saw it too last summer in Russia. The orphans we worked with for two weeks were from all kinds of different homes and were orphaned by a number of different circumstances and you feel helpless in reaching out to them. The best thing to do is to be the shoulder to cry on and the arms to comfort so that they know someone, somewhere loves them and wants the best for them. God will touch them through your team in ways you can't even see. God bless sweetie

    Love you, Amanda

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  3. WE are so proud of you and what your doing. Your ministry is touching so many and the seeds your planting for others to water is great and mighty. Keep up the great work and know that we are praying for you. Sure wish we could be there also with you. I sure would love to help. God Bless you mightly. We love you dearly.

    Love, Uncle Bob and Aunt Melodye

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