praying for children

We have declared this "Pray for Children at Risk" week. I never did get if this is city wide. I guess it must be.

I will be glad to pray specially for children.

But the man they brought in to talk to us as a special guest, well I objected to his slant on the subject.

It was all about advocating more government spending. He seemed to miss the irony that he was complaining about the failure of previous government policies. Government is ill equipped to solve social problems like children's welfare and education. We need to pray all the more with an understanding that only God's gracious intervention will work!

Really the only solution seems to be to get parents to do their time honored jobs. He certainly identified reasons why parents do not succeed. But by his total disregard for parents' abilities it seems he has given up on them. But his solutions are often worse than the problems. Government policies are by definition much too impersonal.

Some of his statistics were misleading. I'll leave it there. You know what they say about statistics.

Perhaps the thing that sticks in my craw the most was his total disregard for the worst child abuse of all. That would be abortion. He never mentioned it. Why?

Anyway, yes I will pray for children. We must pray for some repenting and resolution to do good.