What Can I Do?

I hope to make the rest of the world see and feel what I do when looking at the precious children in orphanages in other countries?

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress." James 1v27

I'm in pieces and I'm upset. I sit in the comfort of my home with my little girl curled up next to me asleep while I'm working on my computer to make what I can to help, the only way I know how to presently, and I forgot to pray before looking at the waiting children Reece's Rainbow site.

Sounds pretty silly, I pray that God will protect my heart when I look at the waiting angels because it makes me cry and breaks my heart. I do pray for all the children as I look at them but I feel an enormous sense of shame that I'm praying for MY heart because of a little discomfort when these beautiful children are living in hell. So what if my heart breaks? These kids go hungry and as I sit here slightly shivering because the heating only just was put on and it is chilly in here, there are orphans in Russia and Ukraine that live every day all winter without heat. Yes, you read that right. They don't heat the orphanages and institutions.

"Whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me." Matthew 18v5

I was incensed after our daughter was born because a midwife had the nerve to tell me I could put my child in care if I didn't want to raise a child with what she considered a disability. Yet there are millions of children, little children whose only 'crime' is they dared be born with a disability. Many labelled with the same label that they gave my daughter and there is nothing more precious on this earth than my daughter.

These children are considered value less. The people in these countries are wrong. They do not know the truth. They are discarding their most precious members of society over a lie. I'm angry. I want to tell them they are wrong and make them stop this.

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in." Matthew 25v35

Yes, I want each of these children to find families and be brought home, and if you are one of the ones God is calling to do this, I want you to be filled with the same anger over someone discarding a precious child like this and for you to go bring that child home. If you are called to donate towards the adoption of one or more of these children then I want you to start praying protection over that child AND over your finances so that nothing will stop you from giving towards them.

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves...defend the rights of the needy." Proverbs 31v8,9

I want countries like my own (UK) to allow international adoption of children with special needs without making the hoops to jump through near impossible. I want us, not just my husband and me, but each person that is reading this, to be part of why these changes happen.

I want to make each and every person who reads this feel uncomfortable, offended even, by my words but I want those words to bring about change. I want these words to bring home children! I don't know what to do for these children and I feel like what I do is so inadequate. It is. Until there is no longer a need for Reece's Rainbow I want us all to fight for these children.

It may be a challenge to you to have any money to donate but I assure you, donating money is the easiest way to help these children. It is needed and without it there are families who would not be able to bring home these children. Your money makes a huge difference in the lives of these kids. But like I said, it is the easiest way to help them.

Bringing a child home yourself is possibly more difficult, but in the long run? You are giving a child life and breath. So many of these children will die without a family so though you may not have been the parents to bring them into the world, you are the parents that will give them life. You will be blessed beyond measure, even through hardships with a child.

"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me, declares the Lord." Jeremiah 22v16

Fighting for these children may possibly be the most difficult task, partially because as laws are passed and people find new ways to 'screen' for these children to take away their chance at life before it begins, you will be fighting against the enemy that tells people they don't want 'these sorts of children'. A mind set that teaches the lie that a disability is an imperfection. I will tell you, there is NO perfect person, living or dead, other than the One who came a couple thousand years ago to save our sorry souls.

It is apparent that we still need saving. We need to save these children, these children who in return; well, some may present a challenge in some ways, some won't. But I guarantee it, they will save you. Just as my daughter saved me.