Posted on 10/27/2009 10:22:05 PM PDT by Scanian
I used to have a job that felt like Divine Grace. Since I was raised secular, it was as close to a religious experience as I had ever had.
I was fresh out of graduate school in my late 20s, working with black foster families and relatives in dicey areas of Oakland. Not a day went by that I didn't cry -- and not just because of the sorrowful plight of the kids.
I'd never been around people like this before, who loved God, who praised Jesus, who lived to serve him. In retrospect, I think my tears came because deep in my heart, I loved God too, but I didn't know it yet.
These families were not raising your average kids. There were crack babies screaming in agony 24/7; molested kids who compulsively masturbated; children beaten and burned and now acting like hellions.
And yet these families just kept on going because, as they would tell me, they prayed, and Jesus wanted them to take care of the kids. Most days, I could barely make it back to my car before I started weeping.
Many of these folks made indelible impressions on my young soul. I remember a 22-year-old single mom living in an immaculate though tiny apartment. Since she had a toddler and worked full time, I felt bad even asking her if she would caretake her cousin's newborn crack baby.
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Thanks for sharing your experience - something few of us can imagine.
There has to be a good solution to this and it’s not dumping money on them and ignoring them. My awakening came when all those people climbed out of their neighborhoods in New Orleans during Katrina - I can’t get that image out of my mind.
The sick thing about the liberals is they are using these poor souls to advance their cause. This is even spelled out in the teachings they follow - Cloward & Piven, not to mention Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton. They are all using these people to advance their agenda and could care less if they are helped. Another example is the voucher program in DC where those poor kids that were doing well got shoved back into the failing public schools - no money? No, all their pet projects were more important to the liberals...
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