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Remember Where You Came From
Intro - [at some point put the disclaimer out there that this isn’t just about children…to listen to sermon on multiple levels.
Literal and Metaphorical.]
So when I was approached by one of the social workers working with us about possibly speaking about adoption today as part of a area wide effort to raise awareness for adoption and foster care, I immediately said yes.
I said yes, BECAUSE of the literal and metaphorical implications for each and every one of us.
I also did so because of the great need.
[read facts from handout]
…and that is just local!
Nationally, the situation is just as dire, if not more so.
The last publically available US Health and Human Services report on foster and adoptive children, completed in 2015, shows that there were 427,190 children who were in some sort of foster care.
That includes group homes and families.
Of those roughly 1/2 million children, 112,820 are eligible, and waiting, to be adopted.
And that year, only 53,549 were adopted.
Almost 60,000 children, or an average of 1200 per state are left unadopted every year.
That is a wholly beatable figure, church, especially given that so many our nation has so many Christians in it.
The problem is, not enough people are stepping up.
That same year, when those 60,000 children are recycled in the system, they were joined by 269,509 other children who were put into the system.
As it was the year before.
And the year before that.
More than a 1/4 million per year are added while the rates of perspective adoptive and foster families remains the same.
Why do I say all that?
Well apart from being important to know, it informs us as to how we should react.
You see, of those children who go unadopted, 20% will become homeless.
20 percent.
Only 1/2 of them will be employed by the age of 24.
Less than 3% of them will get a college degree.
And for the females, 71% will be pregnant by 21.
You want to change the world church?
Start with our children.
Especially those children without a home.
Lets do that together now as we hear our text today from James 1:27.
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Pray
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[story about graduating and then going off to Army....end it with title] BE BRIEF!!!
So when I was a kid
Remember where you came from
Maybe some of you remember family saying, “remember your raising,” or something else similar.
No matter what the phrase, though, it seems like one of the last pieces of advice we get as adults can be boiled down as “down forget your life before this moment.”
And this is an important sentiment, because honestly, the implications of it echo throughout our lives whether we know it or not!
You see, when we pass on that little adage, in whatever form we pass it, we aren’t saying that you are perfect and will therefore do perfect things!
Even though, honestly, that is what most kids think we are saying - I know I thought that.
But we aren’t saying that.
Whether we know it or not, we are setting the stage for a far bigger truth in their lives!
And that truth is this:
Don’t forget the good times.
Don’t forget the bad times.
Don’t forget the failures.
Don’t forget your successes.
But above all that - Don’t forget how we loved you through it all, and will always love you.
No matter what.
That’s what we are saying really.
I mean sure, we don’t want them to mess up, and a part of us thinks that if they only remember every single word we ever spoke to them that they will magically succeed in live, but we know that isn’t the truth.
Just don’t forget all those moments spent together.
Hold on tightly to dreams we shared - to laughing until we cry, and crying until we laugh.
To the nights when fear made you sleep in your parents beds, and the times when our fear as parents kept us up all night.
Don’t ever lose the sense of self you have in our house.
Don’t ever lose your love for playing, or imagining.
Everything you have ever been, while you have been with us, is what you can be in this world!
That is what we want you to hear.
That is what we mean.
If you forget everything else, don’t ever forget that.
That is what family is all about.
That is what we are all about in our house.
Remember where you came from.
pichere
But there is a negative side to that phrase too, isn’t there?
I was the first person in my family to graduate from college.
And I can remember a couple of them, after I got my Bachelor’s degree ask what I was going to do.
I told them I would go on to graduate school.
I can remember one of them, an uncle, looked at me and said:
When did we ourselves forget where we come from, grown ups?
“Don’t get above your raising”
Don’t get above your raising.
Know your place!
You may think that you can do that, but you can’t, or at least you shouldn’t!
Believe it or not, this is a really important question for us.
Honestly it is!
And it effects almost every part of our lives, not just our family situation!
[storyhere]?
[talk about total mentality?
Caring for those who can’t care for themselves?
Imitating God?]
[eventually mention the negatives of the phrase?
Don’t get above your raising.
know your place?
may be good to frame that against the child of God stuff?
Maybe like:
That is what the world tells us sometimes, church.
“Know your place!” Don’t think that you will climb that ladder to worldly success, you are a woman, or you are a minority, or you are an orphan!
You aren’t able to get there because if you really remembered where you came from you would back down.
Just accept what this life has given you and don’t ever try to be more than what you are right now.
But that’s a lie.
We need to remember where we came from.
Do you remember?
Do you remember being loved beyond measure?
Do you remember that no matter what you have done you could be forgiven just by saying the word?
Do you remember always having someone to talk to?
Do you remember being calmed in your worst fears?
Do you remember being filled with joy and feeling like the world was perfect?
Do your remember being told that you can be and do anything you want to do, because you are special and you are loved?
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