Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Prayer of the Children

can you hear the voice of the children
softly pleading for silence in their shattered world?
angry guns preach a gospel full of hate,
blood of the innocent on their hands.
crying Jesus, "help me
to feel the sun again on my face?
for when darkness clears, i know you're near,
bringing peace again."


i'm a primary worker for my church. which means that i work with small children, teaching the basic principles of the gospel while they're parents do the same. and even though my little ones are younger than the children who would have been at the Connecticut Shooting...i feel so sad. looking into their small faces that day, seeing how happy they were just to play duck-duck-goose, and to listen to my made up stories and drawing pictures of their families with our leftover time...they are just like any child, here or in Connecticut. there is no excuse for the murder of these souls.

i imagine how i would feel, if my child were taken from me and i weren't even able to be there to hold their small body as they returned to their Eternal Father. no child's journey on this earth should be brought to such an abrupt end.

there is only despair in my heart when i think about the pain of the mothers, and the fathers. i pray that there is still hope for us. a world where children here, anywhere - whether in Connecticut or any other third world country or any place on earth - where these precious souls are stolen. shattered.

my prayers go out to all those children, and children out there who have also been hurt, or abused, or murdered. these spirits are pure. i know that they will return to our Father in heaven. His love is so infinite. they have a place of pure glory nestled in His arms and surrounded by His love.

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