Sunday Snapshot: We wait for you to ache
With the energy we have, we begin the day, waiting and watching and hoping.
We wait, not clear about our waiting.
But filled with restlessness, daring to imagine that you are not finished yet–so we wait, patiently, impatiently, restlessly, confidently, quaking and fearful, boldly and daring.
Your sovereign decree stands clear and we do not doubt.
We wait for you to dissolve in tender tears.
Your impervious rule takes no prisoners, we wait for you to ache and hurt and care over us and with us and beyond us.
Cry with us the brutality, grieve with us the misery, tremble with us the poverty and hurt.
Attend to us–by attending in power and in mercy, remake this alien world into our proper home.
We ask in the name of the utterly homeless one. Amen.
Words taken from Walter Brueggemann’s Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth.
such cute pics! love em!
Precious children.
Beautiful! I wish they were mine. I’m sure my hubby knows what I’m about to say at this point, “Just one more.”
Such a beautiful post! Your photos are jus gorgeous.
Erika B
I have been having daydreams about a Chinese son…….
I LOVE this! We just started the paperchase for a son:) These pictures and words are poignant and powerful…
I saw your post last night. The marriage of his words and your photos stuck with me all evening and into today. I know that over time, because of my humanness, the images of these precious ones will fade from my memory. Praise be to the One who always sees and never forgets.
Our Father has not forgotten these. He is the Father to the fatherless…and not a hair on their sweet little heads isn’t numbered. Praise Him, because he has knit them together in the womb and no doubt has plans to give each of them a hope and a future.
That’s My Father. He IS GREAT.
Jill
Really amazing photos…
So touching
Wow. Thank you for sharing.
I can’t seem to stop the tears…
This is my prayer…this is my hope…that every child knows the love of our Father!
I know He has a plan and a purpose for each and every one of these children!
I believe it!
I trust Him!
Oh, how He loves them!
Thanks for all you do! The awareness you bring to us all!
Blessings on all you do…always!
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