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| By Ianpassion |
The picture above was taken at Bu Jet Luk Langu Satun, where we spent our family overnight camping before the end of the year 2019. You might like to check the map here.
Our children enjoyed the rope that I installed. As I look at them having fun, I felt they are so blessed. They are adorable. Our heaven’s gift. They are born in a united home, in which their parents are immanent and whose hearts are fully captured by the Father’s love. They always felt secured, protected, and valued.
On the other hand, I felt a special compassion for children who are born in a detached family or a broken home. He or she might have a father who can't relate. Perhaps his priorities are his friends, work, or his hobbies. And some children are suffering from a father who is an authoritarian and a perfectionist, which for every wrong committed there is an equivalent punishment.
It is a fact that many kids nowadays are orphans and they are hungry for the father’s love. In America, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 19.7 million children, more than 1 in 4, live without a father at home. How about around us? Maybe you know someone.
What is sad here are the consequences:
Research confirms that fatherless children have difficulties with social adjustment, and are more likely to report problems with friendships, tend to manifest behavioral problems, are likely to suffer depression, have more trouble academically, and are into drunkenness or drugs addiction.
I was deeply troubled as I personally experience with some of these children. They have never experienced the real love of the father. I ask myself how can I be an instrument of the Father’s love for those who have not encountered His love and be a help for those who are suffering from fears.
The statement of King David (Psalm 68:5-6) echoes in my mind:
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
is God in his holy dwelling.
God sets the lonely in families,
he leads out the prisoners with singing;
but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
is God in his holy dwelling.
God sets the lonely in families,
he leads out the prisoners with singing;
but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
As a new father, I know there are lots of things that I must learn more. This year 2020 and the coming years, I ask the Abba Almighty to please help me father my children and to increase my compassion for those who are in need of His Love.
Happy New Year 2020
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| Sunset at Bu Jet Luk, Langu, Satun |
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