As you look around the world you see hurting people everywhere.  People are loosing jobs right and left.  Families are breaking up before our eyes.  There is not a day that goes by that I do not shed tears over something.

As a father of a child with special needs I find myself often sitting in prayer and tears scalding my face.  I cannot help it as I am tenderhearted.  It is usually my prayer that God will send someone to just put an arm on my shoulder for comfort.  There have been times that I have asked God to literally do this for me Himself.  The awesome thing is that He, Himself put an arm around me.  What comfort!

As i was reading the other day I read the following passage of Scripture in Ezekiel 13:5, “Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.”  The word “gaps” is also breaches.  It brings to my mind a dam holding back millions of gallons of water with a baseball sized hole in it. The word “made” can also be translated hedged the hedge.

When people who have children with special needs sometimes they feel like their live is like that dam.  What we need is someone to put a hedge about us and then have someone else put a hedge about that one so that there are multiple hedges.  Ultimately, God is the One who puts the hedge about us; but, He uses real people in His ministry too.

So, how are you doing?