05/04/2026
Easter Sunday
What’s about those who don’t know of our hope through the resurrection? What about the ones who have HEARD, but can’t trust through the abuse and abandonment?
I took a sibling set of 3 teens from the orphanage to the Good Friday service (ages 12, 15 and 17). The pastor asked us to pray for each other. I asked them “what would you like me to pray for?” Two of them said they wanted a nee family…But this one couldn’t even come up with the words to suggest what her heart wants but her mind tells her is impossible. So she shook her head and shrugged her shoulder.
I hugged her hard through my tears…I prayed “Dear God, please show ****** your love for her.”
And then I heard Him gently say,
“That’s what I’m doing.”
😭😭😭
She won’t remember what the pastor said. She usually sleeps on my shoulder through most of the service anyways. She won’t be able to name the gospels, or even tell you which church she went to for that whole year.
But you know what she WILL tell you?
That at church she felt loved.
If nowhere else, at least there.
At church some nice lady let her always sleep on her shoulder. At church she was kissed and hugged.
Somewhere in her soul she’ll know that church = Jesus = the love of a motherly hug to a teen girl whose mother abandoned her. Even if just for a couple hours she can pretend she has a momma.
And if that’s all I’m remembered for, I think that’s ok.
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