Seeing Jesus through birth families
In my last post I talked about hating thinking about the fact that our children could be reunited with their birth families. This is still an issue I go back and forth on, however we are getting lots of training in this area and lots of perspective. No matter what, I know that if that happens it will be brutal! Here are the thoughts that get me through it, sometimes just barely!
If these families TRULY get their lives together and clean up their acts, and get on the right track, then we have helped them care for their greatest possessions until they were ready to care for them themselves. If we can be loving, patient, and caring with them perhaps they will ask why. If they ask why, there is only one reason, Jesus. I am not a compassionate person when it comes to giving people multiple chances after they have made the bed they now lie in. I have no patience with people who cause their own problems and want everyone else to fix them. I know that in order to have a good, kind relationship with birth parents Jesus will have to take control and shut my mouth.
I keep thinking of it like this; if these people had Jesus, then their lives wouldn't be the way that they are. If I didn't have Jesus how would my life be? If we have their children, love on their children, show their children the love of Jesus, then maybe, just maybe one more of God's children will come to know him. Maybe that child will grow up to love the Lord with all of his heart, soul, mind, and strength. Maybe he will have a greater impact then we will ever know.
However, that child may go home to his birth family. Maybe through the visits with us and the interactions we have with them, a whole family could be changed. As I think about our town I know that the only way anything big is going to change is for people to find my Jesus. A relationship with Him is the only way these families can be restored, hope can be found, and love can be shared. The only way that can happen is through real people living out real love in ugly, dirty, and uncomfortable ways. It won't be pretty, but then again Jesus didn't visit the pretty places, He went to the lowly places where the people needed Him the most.
I hope that through this process I can keep these things in the front of my mind, put my own fears and feelings aside and try and be love in action to someone who needs love more than I have ever known. Going through our classes I have seen a lot of "Christian" strands. Not that our organization is Christian or is taught by a Christian teacher. However treating people with love and respect even when they may not deserve it is one of the biggest things Jesus ever did.
I look at it this way; Jesus was adopted. I bet God didn't agree with everything Mary and Joseph did. And I am CERTAIN Mary didn't agree with God when His plan was to have Jesus crucified and return home to him. However it was God's perfect plan, and if He's been through the pain of giving up His child and seeing him grow up with another family and if Mary had to watch her son suffer, and was comforted by the Heavenly Father, then at least I know He understands what I feel like, but more than that, He cares and will give comfort. He works ALL things together for good!
If these families TRULY get their lives together and clean up their acts, and get on the right track, then we have helped them care for their greatest possessions until they were ready to care for them themselves. If we can be loving, patient, and caring with them perhaps they will ask why. If they ask why, there is only one reason, Jesus. I am not a compassionate person when it comes to giving people multiple chances after they have made the bed they now lie in. I have no patience with people who cause their own problems and want everyone else to fix them. I know that in order to have a good, kind relationship with birth parents Jesus will have to take control and shut my mouth.
I keep thinking of it like this; if these people had Jesus, then their lives wouldn't be the way that they are. If I didn't have Jesus how would my life be? If we have their children, love on their children, show their children the love of Jesus, then maybe, just maybe one more of God's children will come to know him. Maybe that child will grow up to love the Lord with all of his heart, soul, mind, and strength. Maybe he will have a greater impact then we will ever know.
However, that child may go home to his birth family. Maybe through the visits with us and the interactions we have with them, a whole family could be changed. As I think about our town I know that the only way anything big is going to change is for people to find my Jesus. A relationship with Him is the only way these families can be restored, hope can be found, and love can be shared. The only way that can happen is through real people living out real love in ugly, dirty, and uncomfortable ways. It won't be pretty, but then again Jesus didn't visit the pretty places, He went to the lowly places where the people needed Him the most.
I hope that through this process I can keep these things in the front of my mind, put my own fears and feelings aside and try and be love in action to someone who needs love more than I have ever known. Going through our classes I have seen a lot of "Christian" strands. Not that our organization is Christian or is taught by a Christian teacher. However treating people with love and respect even when they may not deserve it is one of the biggest things Jesus ever did.
I look at it this way; Jesus was adopted. I bet God didn't agree with everything Mary and Joseph did. And I am CERTAIN Mary didn't agree with God when His plan was to have Jesus crucified and return home to him. However it was God's perfect plan, and if He's been through the pain of giving up His child and seeing him grow up with another family and if Mary had to watch her son suffer, and was comforted by the Heavenly Father, then at least I know He understands what I feel like, but more than that, He cares and will give comfort. He works ALL things together for good!
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