Strong opinion and emotion warning… read on at your own (maybe my own) risk.

I woke up this morning to news from a friend who took in foster kids pulled from a foster home because of injuries that imply possible (likely) abuse.  So I’m angry.  You’re probably angry, too.. right?  What kind of beast would do that?  There’s not a punsihment harsh enough for someone who would take in vulnerable, hurting kids, and hurt them even more… right?

If you’ve gotten angry too, let’s turn that around.  Where’s The Chruch in all of this?  The foster system has many saints, but also has too many who provide care for the cash compensation and neglect the kids, or who take the opportunity to provide abuse.  the ONLY reason the scumbags get foster kids placed with them is that there are not enough GREAT foster homes to take kids in.  The social workers’ hands are tied.  Kids come into care and there is no place for them.  They have to place them somewhere.

If you’re angry, there is only one place to point that anger - The Church - THE Body of Christ on earth… who in general is more concerned about our comforts, luxuries, and security than we are about kids who need homes.  Who are so proud of how much we love kids… our kids… genetic copies of us… i.e. we really loves us some of ourselves.  But we don’t love or care for other people’s kids.  And don’t tell me we do until we take action as a body… a living mass… a living sacrifice, that is.  Action that eliminates the shortage of foster families and crowds out the problem homes with the love of God.  Action that at least hints at what Jesus said about caring for Him through caring for the least of these.  Hmmm… kind of seems like Jesus said if we don’t care for the least of these, we don’t care for him.  So we loves us some of ourselves, but we don’t give a rat’s arse about the least of these.  And thus we don’t give a rat’s arse about Jesus either.  If we say we do and don’t care enough to live our lives as a living sacrifice for the least of these, we are liars and the truth is not in us.

Don’t like to hear that?  Tough.  I’m not going to back off of that because It’s the truth.  Deal with it, and do something.  DO SOMETHING. What would Jesus do?  He’d sacrifice… and really make a difference.  We aren’t even pretending to try.