The Truth is the Truth

I have read and reread the previous post about dear, little Carrington and orphanage life.  I've been tempted to remove it from my blog, because...well...I'm selfish.....I worry that my motive for posting it could be misjudged.  (We are in the middle of an adoption)  But I can't remove it.  Why?  Because the truth is the truth.  This little girl is not the only orphan to have suffered.  There are so many children suffering neglect.  So many who need advocates.  So many who need us to say, "We won't just watch you suffer anymore."  I saw this picture on someone else's blog recently (yes, I know, I read too much!)


This picture makes my heart hurt.  What is happening?  A well fed, clean human being is walking past an obviously starving, hurting human being.  Where is the compassion?  Where is the love? 
WE DO THIS!  We are that well fed, clean human being ignoring the ones silently crying out to us to feed them, clothe them, love them.
I am that person who ignores, because frankly, I feel overwhelmed with the pain of others and again, I am selfish.  But God calls us to stop.  To feed them.  To clothe them.  To Love them.  To give them Jesus.  I don't know how that will look for you.  I don't know what Jesus is calling you to do.  Goodness, I don't even know how He is fully calling our family.  BUT, make no mistake, He is calling us to treat the broken, the stranger, the outcast, the orphan, the widow like it is Him, to spill out our lives and our resources on them.  Would we stop for Jesus?  Can we help everyone?  No, of course not.  Is that an excuse to not help anyone?  No, of course not!

Read Matthew 25:31-46

I Corinthians 5:15, "and He died for all that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again." 
Jesus did not die for us so that we could live for ourselves.  He died for us so that we who are living in Him would live for Him.  Search the Bible.  How is He calling us to live?  You can't miss it. 

So, I am leaving the last post about Carrington, not because I feel like every orphanage staff person neglects children.  I don't think that!  I do believe that there are sweet, caring people who are doing their best with what they have to care for children.  I also believe that there are people who are doing their worst for children.  I am leaving it because there are lots of Carringtons that need someone to stop and act on their behalf.   You need to know that they are still out there....waiting for someone to say, "Enough!"   

In my next post, I want to tell you about a little boy named Beltran, and how one family in our church refused to leave him as he was, broken, without needed medical care and without the love of family.  But right now we are on our way to a playdate with 3 other children who used to live without the love of family.  Beltran is one of those children.