HEBREWS 13:5
While my brother and I lived with my drug-addicted mother, life was really difficult. School was especially hard because I never cared about my work. I only cared that my brother was at home, alone. I was glad when he started school because then I knew he was safe during the day. Sometimes my mom wouldn’t pay our bills, and we had no water to take baths. She used the little money she did have to buy drugs instead of food for us. My aunt came to get us, but my dad would not give up custody, so she took us to the department of social services. We were placed in a foster home. I hated my aunt for a long time after that because I couldn’t see how what she had done was really best for us. I told my case worker that if she didn’t move me, I would kill myself or run away. But I would soon learn that there was a much better way of escape … it was Jesus alone who rescued my brother and me.
Kristin Abernathy, 16, New Covenant Christian School, Pageland, SC
Sometimes I can’t see Your plan, Lord, and I can’t
understand why things are happening to me.
Help me to see things the way You do. Amen.