What's on my mind... that's a good question. Right now I'm dismayed and feel helpless. Tonight I got to see the look of defeat in my daughters face and hurt and confusion in the face of my grandchildren. And I can't make it better......
I watched all week as my daughter went from one social agency to another seeking help. The need is real, it is having a real effect on my grandchildren. So with no where else to turn my daughter turns to our church. She reassures the kids it will be alright, yes the help she needs is more than the church has set aside for such needs, yes she has had to seek help before.
She is a single parent of 3 who until recently did not have a job, going to school she lived off student loans, work when she could find it and help from her mother and I. However we also have other children and 2 of those families (4 adults and 3 grandchildren) are now under our roof. Which means we can't help as we have in the past.
Others have helped her however and for that I am grateful. She may not be the most responsible, she may have many needs, but she is trying to be the best mother she can be. It took a lot for her to come to the church this time knowing that some would say "what, you need help again" or say even worse about her ability to be responsible.
She is trying, and she really has had her share of problems (the devil seems to like it that way). So when she came to the church as a last resort she felt "I may get lectured, but surely they won't make the kids suffer because of what they think or fell about me".
She constantly told the kids as did their grandmother and I, it's going to be okay, God always provides, and we're sure the church will help. We were wrong......
So now my daughter is defeated, her mom and I told her to keep praying, God will make things work out. My grandchildren aren't so sure however. Right now they see a church that say's they care about them doesn't (even though the refusal of the church was by a select few), and in their minds they wonder "Does God really care?, Does anyone?"
Jesus said that what we do to the least among us we do him, He admonished his disciples for keeping children away from him saying the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the children. Tonight children were punished, made to suffer because of their mother. Their little hearts hardening against the thought that God will provide. They were turned away.
As a parent and grandparent I have a view, as an employee of the church I don't and am probably risking my job writing this. But if I do nothing, I am just like those I am writing about. So please pray for my daughter, pray for my grandchildren.
Because if this is what my church teaches may God have mercy on our souls.
I watched all week as my daughter went from one social agency to another seeking help. The need is real, it is having a real effect on my grandchildren. So with no where else to turn my daughter turns to our church. She reassures the kids it will be alright, yes the help she needs is more than the church has set aside for such needs, yes she has had to seek help before.
She is a single parent of 3 who until recently did not have a job, going to school she lived off student loans, work when she could find it and help from her mother and I. However we also have other children and 2 of those families (4 adults and 3 grandchildren) are now under our roof. Which means we can't help as we have in the past.
Others have helped her however and for that I am grateful. She may not be the most responsible, she may have many needs, but she is trying to be the best mother she can be. It took a lot for her to come to the church this time knowing that some would say "what, you need help again" or say even worse about her ability to be responsible.
She is trying, and she really has had her share of problems (the devil seems to like it that way). So when she came to the church as a last resort she felt "I may get lectured, but surely they won't make the kids suffer because of what they think or fell about me".
She constantly told the kids as did their grandmother and I, it's going to be okay, God always provides, and we're sure the church will help. We were wrong......
So now my daughter is defeated, her mom and I told her to keep praying, God will make things work out. My grandchildren aren't so sure however. Right now they see a church that say's they care about them doesn't (even though the refusal of the church was by a select few), and in their minds they wonder "Does God really care?, Does anyone?"
Jesus said that what we do to the least among us we do him, He admonished his disciples for keeping children away from him saying the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the children. Tonight children were punished, made to suffer because of their mother. Their little hearts hardening against the thought that God will provide. They were turned away.
As a parent and grandparent I have a view, as an employee of the church I don't and am probably risking my job writing this. But if I do nothing, I am just like those I am writing about. So please pray for my daughter, pray for my grandchildren.
Because if this is what my church teaches may God have mercy on our souls.
