It didn't make us angry. It didn't make us quit. While we hurt over our son's tears, we explained that God made us all beautifully different on the outside. And one of the reasons we are here is to show God's love and spread it and we have to even more so with this little boy. It made us sad as someone has not taught him to love all yet. It was a good learning lesson for all of us.
And a good reminder that there is so much work to do here in the world! Just this week a sweet young mom came forward at church to accept Christ as her savior for the first time - because her kids had been encouraging her to come! Kids can have a huge impact on the Kingdom, and I pray mine are doing that while they are in soccer and each place God takes them! (By the way - this week at soccer they were friends!)
It did make me angry, though, when we heard a neighbor and dear girl we mentored each week in St. Vincent had a baby recently. She is just a child- still and has her own now. The same occurred with her mom at that age and her grandma. But still. She was only 10 when we laughed and played with her and now such a young mom at 14. This is a dear family close to our hearts that continues in this cycle and we pray they'll remember God's love and for God to bring justice in this situation. We pray she can be a young lady to change her circumstances and raise her child to know God.
