How could you love someone that you don't understand. You see the trailer on your way to the dump and you just can't see how anyone could live that way. You never saw the abuse he endured when he was so little. You are clueless to the fact that he never had a chance. Would it matter if you knew that when he was 10, a young woman at a grocery store called the child abuse hotline on his mother and talked a fellow employee to follow them home, so they would have an address.
When they put him in a foster home, it didn't get any better there either... he had already started closing people out. Though very small, his world is safe now. God designed him in such a way that allowed his mind to hide all the evil that fell upon a little boy so long ago. Sure, it's left him with very strange behavior patterns, and there is so much he has missed out on, in life, but he's ok with that.
He knows we don't like him, but nobody can hurt him now. As far back as he can remember, his friend has always been there with him. He believes that they will be together one day. They will finally get to hug and maybe even play some of the games they use to play.
It's kinda confusing to him sometimes, but he believes his friend is with him somehow now, but later, it will be for real. They have something together that no one can take away, and so it's ok that we don't like him. His friend doesn't like the things we say and do, either, but he says it's ok... soon, we'll be together.
Father, open our hearts, Lord. How much longer will you allow hate to exist? How much longer will you allow blind people to live as though they see. Father, use me to shine Your Light into cold dark hearts, today. Shake us... open our eyes and open our hearts, Lord Jesus. Pour out your love on all that is unloving. Forgive us, Father.
I Love you.
Excellent True but sad, Lord show us how to see through your eyes,I come before you Lord with a humble & contrite heart, asking you Lord to take the blinders off so no human being have to go through this, we all shoud have our hearts open to others who are crying out for help & love.
ReplyDeleteFather, open my heart, Lord. Show me the futility of all of life, apart from You. Open my heart for the lost today. Give me a yearning to reach out for those who could know you before it's too late. Help me to think of where they might be stuck, hurting, and looking for some real meaning to life. Use me to shine Your Light into cold dark hearts, today. Shake me...open my ears, open my eyes, and
ReplyDeleteopen my heart, Lord Jesus.