Our task in life recovery is multifaceted- spiritual education and growth, character formation, sobriety, life skills education, financial accountability, social recovery, career skill training and development, family reconciliation, community resource identification and access, emotional literacy, establishing realistic expectations of oneself, others, and human institutions, cultivating a servant’s heart toward others, and so much more. A court reunification of a young lady and her child is proof that attending to those things yields dividends that extend far beyond the student alone…..families and even future generations are profoundly affected, too, and our community becomes stronger. I am humbled that God allows all of us at Titus 2 to be a part of his work in these women’s lives. The hope of reunification with family and the opportunity to see the “years the locusts ate” redeemed is what many mothers (and fathers!) yearn for. Only God can do that work. Redemption of lives IS God’s work!
What sustains all of us through such situations is our certainty that God’s will is for parents and children to be together and God’s strength to make it happen……. For parents to be responsible in raising their children in the nurture of the family of God and according to the principles of God’s word…… To see a family restored and a parent capable and committed to doing that gives us strength to continue to do it for one more…..and one more…..and one more….. from October 23,2022
Mother And Child Reunion
Lyrics:
No, I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh, little darling of mine
I can’t for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don’t work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again
No, I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh, little darling of mine
I just can’t believe it’s so
Though it seems strange to say
I never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again
But I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh, the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh, the mother and child reunion
Is only a moment away
© 1971 Words and Music by Paul Simon