Living 6 or 7 hours away from family brings Thanksgiving into perspective. We are so thankful for our vacation time to be able to drive in for a visit! We are so thankful for cousin reunions. It makes those three or four times a year so precious to us! I am amazed when I see the cousins (my nieces and nephews) pick up right where they left off the last time they were together (sometimes months in between visits). I believe their hearts are knit together by God. After all, he designed them to be family. He chose for them to belong to the same "tribe". God is so good!
(Pictured is one half of our cousin tribe in our big white mammoth van.)
I've watched these babies grow (and the babies not pictured too). The days have turned into years much too fast!
I read some statistics on family this week that just breaks my heart. The enemy desires to separate and divide families. He desires to steal a generation. If ever we pray, we must pray for our children, our nieces, our nephews, our grandchildren, our neighbor's children, the children in our church...
An Assessment of Today's Families
The family today is in desperate need of help. Consider the following staggering statistics:
One out of every three children is born out of wedlock.
One out of every two marriages ends in divorce, including Christian marriages.
One out of every three pregnancies ends in abortion.
One million teenage girls became pregnant out of wedlock.
Five hundred thousand of those girls will abort their babies.
Of all the 14 Year Old girls alive today, 40 percent will become pregnant by their 19th birthday.
60 percent of all church-involved teenagers are sexually active.
Other statistics that impact the health of the family:
One out of every four students drop out of high school.
66 percent of American high school seniors have used illegal drugs.
We have 90 million functional illiterates in our society.
Now, that the bejeebies have been scared out of us with those numbers, let me say that in spite of these negative statistics, there is still much hope for the family because of God's Word and the church. God has answers if we search for them with a willing heart. As sure as the enemy attacks, there is greater power in God's ability to heal and to restore!
See previous post, "Scriptures to pray for my children".
Statistics taken from Hope for the Family.
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