As most of you, my readers, know, I write books. Ten years ago, when I retired for the third time, I began by writing a book called “It’s a God Thing!” and now, a decade later, I am about to publish “Cher’s Sea Star Saga” a book about a family who fosters and then adopts children. If I had my life to live over again, I would be that Cher, and my home would be a refuge for children. There are currently, just in Florida, some 24,000 children in foster care, and with the immigration situation, just this year the number is hovering around 11,000 unaccompanied minors housed in Florida shelters.
Some children in foster care will eventually be returned to their families, but many age out of the system at eighteen. Some migrant children are reunited with sponsors, some of whom are family members, but others become victims of 21st century slavery. All of them need care by those who can provide loving homes. The situation is dire. These children are filling our schools, and need parental supervision. They need grace, mercy, and peace.
In my current book I’m writing, there is a sibling group of four, fist orphaned when their parents were killed. Their grandmother cared for them for four years, and when she died, the children were orphaned for the second time. That’s when this loving family fostered, then adopted them. They had previously fostered many children, hoping to adopt, but each time over twenty years, experienced the heartbreak of court placement, sometimes splitting sibling groups. Deuteronomy 10 says:
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