Orphans

Psalm 10:14
But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;
you consider it to take it in hand.
The victim commits himself to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless.

The last few days, we had to do a little bit of multi-tasking--cuddling with baby while reading Frankenstein for Literature class!

Not only did school continue, but we also baby sat for a very woolly, tiny one. My sister acquired a couple of orphans. The first one was found in the sheep barn at my family's farm--battered and left for dead, this precious, helpless lamb was rejected by her mother, which sometimes happens with ewes when they are mothering for the first time.

My uncle walked into the barn and saw the baby, and at first glance, he thought she was dead. After discovering she was still breathing, he recruited the most tender hearted person he knew--My sister, Mavis--to see if possibly the lamb could be 'revived' with a little bit of love and attention.

Mavis needed to be away from home for a couple of days, so she asked us if we would be able to take care of the lamb--(Hannah called her Bailey--and as you can see, she fell in love.)

By the second day, another orphan came to stay. This baby goat--Hailey--was also not taken care of by her mother, and Mavis found herself with another baby to bottle-feed around the clock!

They took to each other right away. As you can see, baby lamb and baby goat became sisters. They are just so sweet with each other. Hailey--the kid--cries whenever Bailey--the lamb totters out of her sight. She has found a life long friend!

All I could think about as these babies were in our house was that it was a resemblance of God's love for us. Battered and beat up by this world, rejected and lonely, He does take us in and accepts us as His own. He is the Father to the father-less and He chose us to be adopted as His own.

I am very thankful for that sense of peace and belonging that being a child of God gives me.

Ephesians 1:4-6
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.