Friday, May 11, 2007
I just don't get it
I really don't. I came across this story of a 7 year-old Colorado boy who died from cardiac arrest due to undernourishment. The article claims he weighed 30 pounds. That is about the weight of my 2 year-old. What is going through your mind when you are starving a child, any child, let alone your own? What words do people use to justify that to themselves. I just don't get it. I also read the story of a Texas mom who sold her 15 year-old daughter to a sexual predator for $3000. Some of us recently had a discussion about internet/real-world safety regarding our children. Can you imagine literally feeding your child to one of these predators? I wonder if when these babies were born, their mothers cried for joy or held them tenderly or were amazed at their creation. I wonder if they ever felt unworthy to be blessed with the miracle of a child. If so, how did they get to the point of doing something so unthinkable? My heart is just wounded for these children and thousands of others who are abandoned in some way by their parents. Can you fathom living the rest of your life knowing that your mom tried to sell you or kill you? I pray for these families today. I pray that they would find healing in the One who loves them unconditionally and will never forsake them. And it leaves me wondering how many kids I have come across or who live in my neighborhood or in our county who are hungry or scared or abused.......
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That's terrible. It makes my heart hurt just thinking about the kids in these kind of situations. I can't believe that these people don't have relatives or friends that didn't see what was or is going on.
**Can you fathom living the rest of your life knowing that your mom tried to sell you or kill you?**
I think it must be even harder for these parents to live with their decision. The child, hopefully, will someday have the chance to forgive and experience healing. The mother will live the rest of her life looking back wondering how he brought herself to that. She'll always be longing for her kid's love and forgiveness. She'll never get over what she did to her child. This stuff tears me apart. We always have to see, though horrible an action as it was, there are more people hurting than the victim. Not to make light of the horrific thing the mother did.
I'm not sure the mother ever will regret what she did and that's even worse. I have seen mothers who think they have a God-given "right" to treat THEIR kids however they see fit. The children are property to them and nobody can tell them otherwise.
Anna
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