Monday, April 18, 2005 AD
Sat in the hotel lobby yesterday morning waiting for Amy and her lovely family to come down to breakfast, and CNN was on. Horror after horror repeated and repeated: 2-year-old stabbed to death, 13-year-old's body found, mom attempted to kill 6- or 7-year old. Finally there was a piece about some New Jersey social service agency that had gotten top-notch professional photographers involved in taking photos of kids in the foster care system in hopes of attracting adopters. But even that depressed me. We are so image-oriented that we have to use eye-candy to get people to have compassion on needy kids.
Then at the picnic after worship I got to see the triplets -- a hard to place trio adopted by a St. Peter family about a year and a half ago. I also happened to be visiting St. Peter in October 2003 the Sunday those babies were baptized. I tried today to think of any other event I've ever witnessed that was so beautiful. I'll let you know if I ever think of one. Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 4/18/2005 11:40:00 PM
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