For all children in need!

Thank you, Crystal, for these helpful links! They are excellent resources and also helpful in keeping our eyes open for missing childen!
 
May all your care and efforts be richly blessed!
 
Much love,
Edda

Peace and joy!

Thank you too, Crystal, for the web links . . .
There is a sickness in a society that allows this to happen.
I pray every day, and send out energy
that we might all be healed
with love . . .
sparrow

everything counts... ♥

The Feast of the Holy Innocents was on December 28, but something I wrote for it several years ago is unfortunately still timely. Any day could be Holy Innocents Day.
 
HOLY INNOCENTS
 
Today, we remember the children
ordered killed by Herod,
fearful of his position as king.
Today, still, lives are being ended
before having had a chance to see
and enjoy the light of day,
children are exploited to satisfy
the grownups' greed, their desire
to exercise power and control.
Infants are killed, if they are
of the wrong sex or race,
or less perfect than expected.
 
Children and teens live on
the streets of our cities and
those abroad, abused, unwanted,
unloved - no place for them
to belong, to call home.
They beg, steal, sell drugs
and their own bodies to survive.
Some become perpetrators of the
violence they have experienced.
Many are dead on the inside,
others dying from infections,
exposure or acts of violence.
Not knowing, if they will live
tomorrow, they try to live today
in the only ways they know.
 
Infants and young children are
abused, neglected, even killed
by those expected to
protect and nurture them,
by those too involved in their
own problems, too needy to attend
to the needs of their children.
Babies are found in garbage cans -
unwanted, or placed there in
desperation by those who do not know
where to find help, or perhaps by
parents addicted and irrational.
 
These are the Holy Innocents
of our days, whose pain, whose blood
calls out to the Heart of the World.
 
Edda

Peace and joy!

Thank you Edda for Posting that. It is indeed still true and still needed.
This week there have been programs on TV about Anne Frank with accompanying footage of children in concentration camps. We need constant reminders.
 
Jude

Love is the only way

Thank you Edda . . .
As Jude says, we need reminders.
How is it that this is so?
The horror of it is in the news one way or another every day.
These children are indeed 'holy innocents'.
with much love and thoughtfulness for this . . .
sparrow

everything counts... ♥

Thank you Edda, so true. Sadly so many don't want to see it but I don't understand how they can ignore it when it's everywhere anymore. It's as if millions of people just have no heart or plain don't care. Fact is that I get teary eyed and my heart hurts because so many who depend on others to do for them suffer. I look at my kids and knowing no parent is perfect and that they teach me something new daily, I wonder how someone can harm a sweet innocent child. How is it they sleep at night? There are nights I can't sleep for thinking about the many faces I've seen of missing and abused children, deceased children tossed out like garbage when they are gifts from God. There are times when the little faces seem to fill my head and I simply cannot speak. The words will not come, my throat is filled with a lump that just won't go down. I pray that justice for the is done for these children, pray that someone will show them the love they need and deserve.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb