George's tears will soon be Joy, because our God is Faithful.

Last night, I found George crying.  Weeping.  I went to him - a bit unsure how to comfort him in a culturally appropriate manner.  He is 15, a boy that is almost a man.  I sat next to him on the bed and told him to come.  Being a mamma the way I know is all I know!  He curled up in my lap and wept on my chest.  45 min of me holding him - unable to say anything except that I was so sorry.  He missed his mom that died 3 years ago.

Jim had spent quite a bit of time with him yesterday talking about his family, about God.  It was good, but it also brought things to the surface.  He missed his mom.

His mom had loved him.  She was a dentist that took him to church and prayed with him every night.  She was not sick - but one day - she died in his home.  His life changed suddenly.

Today, we wept - my whole family - and George - together.  Even now I hurt.  George wants to stay with us - but we think that he will be able to heal better with a Kenyan family.  There is a lady named Mamma Mariam at our church that he is going to live with.  She is a grandmother with grandchildren George's age.  She is a loving lady who fears God.  Her heart is with mine with George.  We are going to work with her to find a way for George to re-enter school.  He wants to be a Dr . . . like his mother was.  He has been studying at our house, getting ready.

Jim just left to take him.  He doesn't want to go, but has agreed to try it one week.  Pray with me that this one week will be one of peace, love and unity there.  Pray that George feels love there and not rejection from us for sending him there.  Pray for George.  Pray for Mamma Mariam to have discernment to be able to be used by God to help him heal.  We have asked him to try - for just one week. Pray for us.  When God puts love in your heart - it is a deep love.  When they hurt - we hurt.  We are hurting.

As I have said many times, Is. 61:1-3 is my life verse.  In George I have witnessed one side of much of that passage - and I know that the other side is in his future.  It is God's will for him to be fully restored.  The loss of a mother, the rejection of an aunt that sent him to the street, all of the unmentionable things that he has witnessed living there for two years.  Only God can restore him.   Pray with me that George will be a living testimony of the truth of the verse.  (I have posted the verse again below.)

Today in church - the music in the praise time called on me to trust God with George.  I am trusting - by sending him - I am trusting.  Pray with me for George to become what vs 3 below says - an oak of righteousness, a planting of the Lord, to display God's splendor.

In Him

Linda


Isaiah 61:1-3
 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, 
       because the LORD has anointed me 
       to preach good news to the poor. 
       He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 
       to proclaim freedom for the captives 
       and release from darkness for the prisoners, ^[a]

 to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor
       and the day of vengeance of our God,
       to comfort all who mourn,

 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
       to bestow on them a crown of beauty
       instead of ashes,
       the oil of gladness
       instead of mourning,
       and a garment of praise
       instead of a spirit of despair.
       They will be called oaks of righteousness,
       a planting of the LORD
       for the display of his splendor.