let me be a shelter

Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm...
Isaiah 32:2

My man loves cops and I don't but as I was pottering around in the lounge I caught a bit of it. The police were called to someone's home where two little kids (5 and under) were locked out of the house and crying as they knocked on the door to try to get back in. As it turned out the grandma had drunk herself to sleep and somehow the kids went outside and then couldn't get back in. It upset me big time. To make it worse the little boy, 5 years old, had alcohol on his breath.

I talked to the LORD about it and said to him why couldn't he say to Satan hands off the kids. In the bible when he talks about helping the less fortunate he nearly always talks of orphans and widows. I think it's because they have no one to protect them and they are all alone in the world. Kids born into these lives are used and abused by Satan. It always upsets me that bad things happen to children. I know that they will live the rest of eternity with our God and know such love that their brief time on the planet would be gone in a blink of an eye. But it breaks their loved ones left behind.

I don't think I would be able to cope if anything happened to my son. I can't bear to think of him hurting himself even in little things let alone the horrors that Satan has up his sleeves. I thank the LORD for protecting him and all our little ones. For marking them with blood like the first born of Israel. So no weapon formed against them will prosper.

The LORD has given me a heart for poor stricken children, especially those in Africa. If I could picture myself fulfilling my purpose in life it would be Isaiah 32:2 for little ones who have no one else in the world to help them except the LORD, whose parents have neglected them, who live in poverty and have no idea what it would mean to live a blessed life.

I said to my man I would love to have the police ring me and say those two kids need a home and I would be there in a flash. I would need a home of some kind where there would be other children there too. Myles said like an orphanage, an institute, etc. But I couldn't find a word that would capture the kind of home i would create for them.

The LORD reminded me of my verse. It would be a shelter from the wind, a refuge from a storm. Like Watoto. It would be a place where they would know they were loved and precious, created specially by the the LORD. Where they would feel safe and protected always. Spoilt like I spoil my nieces and nephews. They wouldn't just have their basic needs met but they would have their dreams fulfilled.

This is a huge ask and I have no idea when or where this will be. But I know it's the LORD's doing that my heart weeps for these children. He made me this way and he will use this some way in my life. I wait expectantly on the LORD as he prepares the way.