Little ones

I hurt my baby today. It wasn't serious. I closed a drawer on her toes. But it gave me just a small insight into the horrendous feeling of watching your baby suffer and my heart just aches for mothers everywhere with sick little ones. Knowing what that felt like to see my baby cry for something I did to hurt her, how, oh how can anyone deliberately hurt a child? They're so innocent, vulnerable, trusting...

There's a little boy who we are praying for and I'd love for you to join me. He's mentally retarded and emotionally fragile. He was in my friend's special ed. class. I used to go sing for them and he would drink in my songs as if I were an angel.  He was one of five adopted children in his family. His original family sexually abused him and kept him in a closet. Two months ago, his (adopted) father died and his (adopted) mother put him in a home because she couldn't handle all her kids anymore. I can't imagine what he might be feeling right now. I sob for him. My husband has cautiously agreed to look into adopting him. Please pray that we can be or find a family for him. All children need love. And this one...he is long overdue to be showered with it.

Comments

[Mel]

That is amazing. How beautiful to want to open your hearts and your home to this child. I will send positive thoughts up that way.

[Michelle]

I have done that exact same thing, and I know the intense guilt that you feel in your heart after it happens. My son was very young (maybe about 3 months or less), when I was cradling him in my arm, using my other arm to grab the phonebook out of the drawer, and then closed the drawer with my hip, catching his dangling foot. He shrieked. I bawled and felt like a terrible mother. We were both okay once I nursed him for a bit and loved on him a whole lot, telling him over and over again how terribly sorry I was.

I also remember that after I had my daughter, I kept wondering what inadvertent thing I was going to do that would hurt her accidentally, and the relief I felt when our first "encounter" proved to be nothing much more than me bumping into her when she was learning to walk, causing her to drop down on her diaper-padded bottom.

I guess you could use this as one of the examples of "things that surprised me as a parent" that you asked me about earlier. Yep, you found that one all on your own! I'm so sorry because I know how hard it is when it happens.

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Don't know what is wrong what is rite but i know that every one has there own point of view and same goes to this one