Injustice?

Yesterday James finished his school work around 11 and we helped Franklin in the shop getting doors ready to hang in Cabin Hope. Our hopes are high and it's like we are sitting right on the edge of a great divide, ready for GOD to lay that bridge down so we can open Camp Taller del Maestro for the campers to come running to JESUS!
So at 12:30 James and I left to go to his dentist appointment. He has had braces now for 6 months and the dentist told us he is doing great, his teeth have been moving and they are all in a nice straight line already! "Needs a little more brushing though", he told James!
Then we traveled on to Tabarcia for James drum lessons. He is doing well on drums and they hope to have the presentation soon at a church service!
So while James was at drum lessons I went to our hair dresser to get a haircut. She and I were the only ones in the shop and we talk about a variety of things from our kids to people in general. She told me of an experience that she still was almost in tears over a day or so before. A couple came in to the shop to have their 2 sons hair cut, the boys were around 8 & 13 or so. The boys were not happy about hair cuts and the parents threatening, and the hair dresser in the middle! The oldest went first and he had no say in how his hair was to be cut, so then it was the younger ones turn. He looks at Marlen and says, I'm not going back to school! She tries to make light of it and says, honey, who's been mean to you at school? He said, no, it's nothing at school, I hate the way she wants my hair cut!


The parents by this time are mad and the tension in the room is unbearable, when the dad gets up and jerks the boy by the ear till she said with tears in her eyes says, "I thought he'd jerk it out!" The boy is crying and she is still trying to finish the haircut so they can go on, and she tells the dad, you know you could do harm to his ear, I know as parents we must correct our children but with care, so the dad comes back with, "I will jerk the other ear to match it", more directed to the boy than to Marlen. She said, "I was never so glad when someone left the shop as when they walked out", then went in the other room and cried!" thankfully no one else just her daughter was there at the time, so she was able to recuperate before she had to cut someone else's hair.


I didn't ask if they were Christians, you see as we visit I share Christ with Marlen, as of yet she hasn't confessed JESUS as her Saviour, but the sad thing is many if these things she sees is from parents who go to church, profess Christianity, but leave a different impression on those "In the world around them" What testimony do we have to show JESUS to those around us?


As I thought about this conversation this morning, I asked GOD, why? Why so much injustice, why do you let children suffer, it's not their fault, it's not that they are bad!
BUT, GODS grace and love is sufficient! Let us be peacemakers, loving each other and those less fortunate, teachers who guide out of a heart of love, helping these who are doing wrong, as well as those who wrong has been done to, helping, healing, the LORD showed me my words should be like a healing balm, medicine for the hurting. So today as we go out, if we see injustice, let's don't just turn and look away, the least we can do is say a prayer for them, and if we can give a word of peace and love! It may change the situation and GOD will be glorified!


JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James