On Christmas Eve, I left a house full of family to drive to the bank (official Creative Construction Business). While driving home, I heard this song for the thousandth time. And although I had heard it many times before, that time it made me cry. Big.
Since then, each time I hear it my heart aches a bit more.
I finally emailed it to Chad and asked him to listen to it daily for a while. Pray. And let me know where he feels God is directing our family. Maybe we need to work harder to care for "our" Jemo kids. Maybe we need to serve in a new and deeper way at Freedom Fellowship. Maybe we need to consider adopting again or fostering or. . . Maybe I am just tired and emotional!
He called me the next day and said, "I listened to your song."
I love him.
So for now, this song is a part of our prayer.
Little hands, shoeless feet, lonely eyes looking back at me
Will we leave behind the innocent too brief
On their own, on the run when their lives have only begun
These could be our daughters and our sons
And just like a drum I can hear their hearts beating
I know my God won’t let them be defeated
Every child has a dream to belong and be loved
Chorus:
Boys become kings, girls will be queens
Wrapped in Your majesty
When we love, when we love the least of these
Then they will be brave and free
Shout your name in victory
When we love when we love the least of these
When we love the least of these
Break our hearts once again
Help us to remember when
We were only children hoping for a friend
Won’t you look around these are the lives that the world has forgotten
Waiting for doors of our hearts and our homes to open
CHORUS
If not us who will be like Jesus
To the least of these
If not us tell me who will be like Jesus
Like Jesus to the least of these
Boys become kings, girls will be queens
Wrapped in your majesty
When we love, when we love the least of these
Then they will be brave and free shout your name in victory
We will love we will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
We will love the least of these
Break our hearts once again, Lord. In whatever direction You will.
I am both excited and terrified to see where this prayer leads.
