Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget yet will I not forget you.
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. - God Isaiah 49:15&16
On a hot, Sunday morning in July a small child was abandoned in our front yard. We have no idea of the desperation that must have driven little Kerry’s mother to leave him in such a rude manner. He had profound disabilities including a feeding tube in his tummy but someone had been taking good care of him because Dadou and Alicia found him laying in the grass like this:
He was clean, well dressed and had his papers tucked in behind his back.
Thankfully I knew how to care for his feeding needs and was able to keep him fed and hydrated for several days while the legalities got worked out!!
Of course we had to report it to the police and they took us to the judge who wrote up some papers for us then on Tues. one of the local mayors went with us to take little Kerry into the city. We had to take him to the IBESR office which is like social services. All the IBESR workers were very busy that day drumming their pens on their empty desk tops!! So it gave them a change of scenery and conversation to try to figure out what to do with this little boy. One lady who seemed to be in charge said she knows of several places where they care for kids with medical needs like this and promptly got on the phone. After some more papers and more conversation, mostly in French because no one important wants to stoop to speaking Kreyol, I had to lay Kerry in a little bed with a soft blanket and walk out.
I felt terrible leaving him like that as he was obviously traumatized from being so rudely abandoned by his mother only a couple days earlier but I had to commit him into the care of the Lord Jesus and believe that he has a place and a plan for this pitiful, forsaken, child.
I got some good cuddle times in with him! He was really, really, cute and soft and squishy!! Tonight I hope there is someone who has fallen in love with sweet Kerry and who will love and care for him with the pure love of God.
I really believe that we cannot even imagine how much our big God cares for and loves a little child like Kerry. I don’t think we can imagine how his heart breaks to see his precious little ones discarded like trash.
Here is how God created this little masterpiece named Kerry:
psalms 139:13-16
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them!!
what a cutie!!
