If you read this blog just for the cute Eliza pics, you might not want to read this post.
(little boy from the center)Some thoughts after my first week at my field placement (internship) at the Nurturing Center:
- Women should not have to decide whether they should keep a child that is a product of rape... they just shouldn't have to...
- It's not funny to force a child to smoke marijuana or cocaine...
- Abusive husbands should not step on their daughter's and wife's 3 week old kitten and kill it...
- Winnie the Pooh hand puppets are a strange vehicle for disclosing sexual abuse... but apparently still effective...
- I'm learning a lot about the pain that exists in our everyday neighbors.
Isaiah 53:4-5 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows... and with his stripes we are healed.
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3 comments:
amy,
i can't imagine how tough you are to deal with this on a daily basis. our training in foster parenting and the subsequent reading i've done is very eye-opening to say the very least. it's so heavy. and i'm so glad there are people like you.
that's one of my favorite chapters in the bible too. i love how clear and lucid that chapter is (esp since it's in isaiah), and how beautiful.
btw, how many classes are you taking on top of this internship? it seems you must be staying busy.
Sounds like you're talking about unwanted children. Is it really better that their parent(s) chose to bring them into the world? I feel like there is no easy answer once you are exposed to the reality of some people's lives. Especially since, as a society, we don't seem to be particularly equipped nor willing to take care of children when their parents don't.
It's a sobering perspective. Life is incredibly unfair to those kids. I'm amazed at how much you do to try to help.
I wish we as a society would do more to address the problem instead of simply blaming the parents. Okay, it's their fault. But NOW what?? How do we solve the problem?
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