Blessings

Today was a sad day for us.  Blessings, who is 14 months old is at the point we need to find a permanent solution to his care.  His mother is blind and made her living by begging in town.  When he was first brought here, she pushed him away like she never wanted to have him around again.  She has now been accepted into a school for the blind, and of course can’t care for a child during that time.  We were hoping she would allow him to be adopted, since she said it was fine for him to stay with us until he was grown.  Today we met with her at the Social Welfare office and she said she didn’t want him to go to another family, for adoption or foster care; an institution (orphanage) would be fine, just not a family.  Of course we find that very strange, but upon further thought things start to come into focus.  If the child goes to an institution, the parent(s) is relieved of the burden of raising them, but when they get out they will still seek out their original family.  Then they can contribute to the wellbeing of the parent.  If they went to another family, they would become part of that family and not return.  So it all boils down to economics and what’s best for you (the parent), not what’s best for the child.  So the bottom line was that there is an aunt that lives about 30 miles away and the mom will take Blessings and drop him on the aunt, who will be obliged to care for him since he is part of the family.  Now imagine what kind of care that will be.  If it weren’t for the knowledge that God is sovereign and over all things we would be very concerned.  We loved and cared for Blessings for 4 months because it is part of God’s plan for his life and we may never know this side of heaven how that plan turned out but we can trust God for it.

 

Andy