do the children play any more?

27 May 2009 2 Comments

by Erika in Uncategorized

I stumbled across a website for some of the children up for adoption in Ohio this evening. In the last few years I have subjected a select few of my closest friends to opinions and feelings about adoption. Most of my poor patient friends are aware that I am of the opinion that everyone should at least consider adoption or fostering, mostly because my heart cannot bear to see children lonely or without families and partially because we have so much.

So this evening looking through some of the photos I was undone. There are so many children who have nobody to read them bedtime stories, nobody to tell them they are precious, nobody to want them. And there are so many people who have everything to offer one of these and won’t. Most of the listings are between 6 and 12 and I can’t help but wonder…do those who are willing to adopt only consider little lost ones who are small and “cute”? I can’t help but respond. While I am safe and warm and comfortable, and I have a great family and fantastic friends, the security of a job and the luxury of study, somewhere there is a eight year old called Cody and a little girl called Courtney who want what they call a “forever family”.

This isn’t meant to be a look-how-good-we’ve-got-it blog, it’s meant to be a why-aren’t-we-doing-something-about-this blog. Doesn’t our Lord want to place the lonely in families? I read these short profiles written by case managers who want to place broken children in homes where they can have a little of the love and attention they need, and my whole heart is saying: this is NOT how You meant it to be. This is NOT how YOU meant it to be. Of course it isn’t, how could it be? But we are His hands and feet, and where are we? Where am I? Somebody, if I don’t make a difference for just one of these somehow, kick me.

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