There is a special that comes on at Christmas every year that I love to watch. It usually is on TV around Dec 21st but this year it is on the 19th. Unfortunately, we won't be home to watch it. :( Various music artists perform & the show highlights children that have been adopted from the US Foster Care System. At the end of the show, they typically spotlight a few waiting children.
It makes me think of children everywhere who will experience Christmas this year not knowing if they will have a family at Christmas time next year. Some are too young to really understand that, like my little Ping waiting in China. She doesn't know yet that life in an orphanage is not the way most people live or what being in a family feels like. By next Christmas, Lord willing, she will know the love of a family. There are so many more that will hope for a family but will never get one.
From Steven Curtis Chapman's song, "All I Really Want" :
All I really want for Christmas is someone to tuck me in
A shoulder to cry on if I lose, shoulders to ride on if I win
There's so much I could ask for but there's just one thing I need
All I really want for Christmas is a family.
http://www.songlyrics.com/steven-curtis-chapman/all-i-really-want-lyrics/
Pray for foster children, orphaned & abandoned children all around the world this Christmas!
2 comments:
Deborah, I've never watched this show but will try and do it on Wednesday. Unfortunately, I won't have DVR capacity until Thursday...
I hope you get to watch it! I enjoy it so much every year!
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