“Americans recognize Mother’s Day, Father’s Day… so why not a national Children’s Day? A day that revives, celebrates, and commits to our children and their future.”
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The second Sunday in June is Children’s Day.
Many children in America live in safe homes, with enough food and the support of loving parents. But more than 3.6 million referrals involving more than 6 million children are made every year to child protection agencies. Countless others live in unhappy, unsafe situations.
Let’s pray not just for our own children, but for the millions who find themselves in homes filled with tension and violence, on the street, in foster care and residential treatment. Let’s minister not only to the children we know and love, but also to these unknown children who desperately need love.
Open our eyes and hearts, Lord, to children in desperate need. Drive us to prayer and action on their behalf.
As a bloke who started carrying a sidearm at age eleven, to protect myself from those who were supposed to protect me, I can only say…AMEN.
I know someone who held off her “protector” with a butcher knife till the police arrived and locked him up.