I wanna cry

I wanna cry

Maybe it’s because I’m in my thirties, and finally growing up.

Maybe it’s because I’m finally becoming who God intended me to be.

But more and more news stories today make me sad. And most of it surrounds news with kids in the headlines.

I don’t know how many more stories I can hear of people harming children. Kids aren’t safe anywhere these days. Not in school. Not in church. Not in the home. Not in the womb.

I just read the gruesome details of a woman in a neighborhood near mine. As the story goes, times were tough for her and her children. They didn’t have water. She was working at McDonalds to make money. She was afraid protective services were going to take her kids away.

And she snapped.

Apparently she told her sister she was going to the ends of hell, and she thinks she ate some people.

She went and got a knife and chased down her daughters. She killed the 8 year old first, and then her 2 year old. Then she stabbed the 3 family pets to death in their kennels, and finally the family pet mouse.

And she sat in the trailer with the bodies for a couple hours.

Her sister finally showed up concerned, found out what happened and called 911.

From the news report I saw, she was defending her sister at the police station. She was saying something to the effect of that not being her sister but some psycho woman.

I don’t care if she was psycho or not. Murder is murder. And children are the epitome of innocence. How can someone…..a mother….kill a child? This was her flesh and blood. How can she kill the pets who were sitting in their kennels?

Last night I saw a news report of children….young children being sold overseas as sex slaves. How twisted and evil can a human be? This was preceded by a report about online sex predators and the young teens and children they prey upon.

It makes me wanna cry.

Look at this world today. It’s scary. I want to have kids, but I will never be able to protect them from everything. Kids hardly have anytime to be kids anymore. We have to teach them not to talk to strangers. By age 5 we’re teaching them to not let an adult touch their private areas.

I have 4 nieces and 3 nephews, with one on the way. I love them with all my heart. And that same heart breaks when I hear news like the stories I mentioned earlier.

God has such a heart for children. Jesus said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me….” when people were trying to keep the children from him.

Psalms 127: 3 says Children are a gift from the Lord.

Have you ever had a little one fall asleep in your arms? Have you ever had a little on tell you they love you? Have you ever seen the bottom lip of a little on quiver, only to have the tears wiped away and smile take its place?

Taking the innocence and lives of children should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. No ifs, ands or buts. No plea bargaining. No deals. No insanity pleas. The act committed is the act that should be punished. It’s sad that our justice system is so flawed these days. We protect those who commit these acts.

They laugh in the face of our justice system. They mock the foundations of our society. They mock us and they mock God. They’ll pay for it some day.

But right now, only our kids are paying for it.

And that’s what makes me wanna cry.