Steadfast love of the Lord never ceases

Hopeless.
I see it everyday working in child welfare.
Parents severely abusing their children.
Exposing them to violence, crack, sexual predators.
Chains of poverty holding them in a cage, while the man holds the keys.

Finally, a parent succeeding.
Rehab completed, minimum wage job holding their head above the water.
Then the court system and white-middle-class standards say it’s not good enough.

Now the very machine meant to help, too broke to do what it was meant too.
A kid once broken and separated by a young parent’s ignorance.
Now crushed and severed by a new hegemony.

Hopeless?
I see it everyday working my relationship with Him.
A child abusing her Father.
Complaining about His gifts, using Him like a convenience store.
Exposing her heart to lies, held down by a seemingly cyclical chain of sin.

Finally, the Truth seeps through.
Sin repented, grace holding her afloat.
Again, she’s reminded, even her attempts at goodness are not good enough.

Meant to live thru her Creator, grateful He’s in control.
A kid once broken and separated by her own ignorance,
Now free. In loving submission to His hegemony.
But she climbs back into the cage again and again.

One knows no freedom, no Father.
The other knows, but forgets every day.

Thankful for a living hope that is new EVERY morning.

Because of the LORD’s great love
we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
–Lamentations 3:22-23