All The Things

I’ve learned a little about the love of a Father or parent throughout my years teaching, and even more so throughout the last year of my life. A little over a year ago, I began teaching and working with unaccompanied minors who cross the border and enter our country illegally (as you’ve seen on the news lately this is a huge issue). So many minors enter my life on a daily basis and many leave just as quickly as they are reunited with family members all over the United States. (This process can be intricate and confusing so if you ever want to know more ask me.) But the point of this blog is to say that just about every other day I want to come home and write a blog about what God is teaching me through the lives of these minors.

More than anything I am reminded daily about how much our Heavenly Father loves and cares for us. While most of the minors that come into our shelter only stay about 2-3 weeks, some stay longer due to their circumstances. It is always a little harder to see them leave as we begin to love and care for them as if they were our own children, after all God calls us to care for the Fatherless, and for a short time they are our children. We begin to hurt when they hurt, laugh when they laugh, and more than anything want the best for them. This love has got to be a reflection of how God looks down upon us as His children. He will always love his. He will comfort us when we need to be comforted, and rejoice in our rejoicing, but more than anything what He desires is the best for us. He desires that we seek Him and have a relationship with Him because only that will give us true peace and joy. Only that will at the end bring Him glory.

I don’t have children of my own yet, but I am so thankful that God lends me some of His children to remind me so much about who He is daily.