"Now You're An Orphan!"
My mother went to heaven early this past Friday morning. Isn't that wonderful? We are just praising the Lord for releasing her from the prison her body had become since her major stroke last September. She was a 91 year old woman of strength and faith, who loved life but was ready to die. What a great way to be! Is that your attitude?
Most of us find it very awakward when it comes to talking about death. Many of my mother's generation refuse to even discuss plans for the often inevitable care that will be needed, what they want done with their things, or the kind of memorial service they'd like. We'll be taking mother's body to her home town for burial. I mean literally transporting it in our van. That really spooks some people! That's nearly $1000 we won't have to pay someone else to do it. I'd rather give that money to grace in ACTION usa!
I've been surprised how many times in the last three days someone has said to me, "Now you're an orphan." Praise the Lord, I don't feel like an orphan ~ alone or abandoned, destitute or homeless. My apron strings have been cut far too long for that. When you're secure in your relationship with your heavenly Father you never have to feel like an orphan.
I can't even hazard a guess as to how many orphans there are in the world. And the number grows by hundreds each day, especially in countries where AIDS is rampant and children's parents die while they are still very young, leaving large families of orphans. How sad! Sadder still is the fact that these children may also be victims of the dread disease. I'm glad to be associated with mission organizations like ICDI & GBIM that are addressing a portion of those needs in the Central African Republic.
grace in ACTION usa doesn't have a specific plan to help orphans. But, God willing, our Community Life Centers will affect some of them, perhaps by helping them learn the life skills that will enable them to be good, Christian parents and teaching them job skills so they can raise and support a strong, healthy family. Maybe they'll even adopt an orphan! God willing, they'll have a faith strong enough to say "I don't feel like an orphan" when their parents are both gone.
May I point you to what James writes in chapter 1, verse 27. Pure and lasting religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for orphans and widows in their troubles., and refuse to let the world corrupt us.
Most of us find it very awakward when it comes to talking about death. Many of my mother's generation refuse to even discuss plans for the often inevitable care that will be needed, what they want done with their things, or the kind of memorial service they'd like. We'll be taking mother's body to her home town for burial. I mean literally transporting it in our van. That really spooks some people! That's nearly $1000 we won't have to pay someone else to do it. I'd rather give that money to grace in ACTION usa!
I've been surprised how many times in the last three days someone has said to me, "Now you're an orphan." Praise the Lord, I don't feel like an orphan ~ alone or abandoned, destitute or homeless. My apron strings have been cut far too long for that. When you're secure in your relationship with your heavenly Father you never have to feel like an orphan.
I can't even hazard a guess as to how many orphans there are in the world. And the number grows by hundreds each day, especially in countries where AIDS is rampant and children's parents die while they are still very young, leaving large families of orphans. How sad! Sadder still is the fact that these children may also be victims of the dread disease. I'm glad to be associated with mission organizations like ICDI & GBIM that are addressing a portion of those needs in the Central African Republic.
grace in ACTION usa doesn't have a specific plan to help orphans. But, God willing, our Community Life Centers will affect some of them, perhaps by helping them learn the life skills that will enable them to be good, Christian parents and teaching them job skills so they can raise and support a strong, healthy family. Maybe they'll even adopt an orphan! God willing, they'll have a faith strong enough to say "I don't feel like an orphan" when their parents are both gone.
May I point you to what James writes in chapter 1, verse 27. Pure and lasting religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for orphans and widows in their troubles., and refuse to let the world corrupt us.
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