Sorry Ma we don't disagree at all I was replying to Barker's quote not yours did not change the header I guess. We are in total agreement on that point. At this point what happens to this man is between him and God, my heart goes out to the family that loved those little kids. The death of a child in this manner is always so hurtful, we will never know what those children would have become, maybe one of them would be the doctor that would save many other lives, another a great evangelist, or a parent that would have shaped their childrens lives to become followers of Christ...my heart weeps for them and all too many children that we have lost needlesly. My Bible study group used to visit a home for abused and neglected children we would spend a few hours with them once a month, we would have gone more often but their rules precluded it. We would play games with them, talk to them and more important listen to them. We would go back home and often I would cry because of what I saw and what I heard. The local home closed and the children were sent to other facilities because of funding problems but they still are in my thoughts to this day. I wrote this after one particularly touching evening with them.
An Unspoken Plea
I've been hurt, abused and so ill used
By the world and it's way
My dignity trampled, shorn and left forlorn
My spirit crushed day by day
How did this happen to a child such as me?
Not loved, not nurtured, not cared for
As any child has a right to be
Where is the one
Who stole my life
Cutting away my innocence
With deeds sharp as a knife
Do they really know
What evil they have done
Using, abusing, destroying me
For their own perverted fun
But a judgement is coming
And such a judgement it will be
Better a millstone tied to the neck
And cast into the sea
For all of us children
Are God's gifts to all
And woe to the man
Who causes us to stumble and fall
Dedicated to the Children of St. Joseph's Home
And all abused children everywhere.
Ma Betty
