Ah To Be Young Again

“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten- the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm- my great army that I sent among you.Joel 2:25

Recently I was looking through an advertising for children’s playhouses. Little girls even back when I was a child loved playhouses. My sister and I used a card table with a plastic log cabin cover and we were perfectly content. 

Childhood for some reason is not so always good as depicted by the movie ‘Redeeming Love’ and from true stories of Joyce Meyer and other well known people who were used, abused, or witnessed things children should not. I know people who have had wretched childhoods too. 

So this thing to want to stay forever young it not necessarily a good thing. God wants you to grow and if you suffered pain and abuse you moved on and hopefully were released from the torment of it. Mothers Day was just observed and hopefully celebrated but Father’s are a necessity for a stable healthy family life. Numerous stories of absent fathers results in many negative things. Black Father’s Matter was recently started and perhaps there should be All Father’s Matter. Embrace where you are and even give thanks for bumps along the way where God used bad stuff to redeem you and restore you. 

PRAYER: Father bind up the wounds of those adults who as children had hurt, pain, abuse, neglect thrust upon them. Help restore brokenness to those who hurt. Guard the little ones today being raised in homes without love. Overcome evil with good. Help sex trafficking be purged and those affected healed. In Jesus’ name. Amen. 

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