For Erica...

Erica Michelle Marie Green was identified this week after being known for years only as "Precious Doe." Her body was found near an intersection in Kansas City in 2001. A few days later, her head was found nearby, wrapped in a trash bag. It had been cut off with a pair of hedge clippers. Erica had been severely beaten by her mothers husband in the days before her murder. Her mother, Michelle M. Johnson, and her mothers husband, Harrell Johnson, have been charged with murder and endangering the welfare of a child. Erica had been brought to Missouri by a mother she barely knew, after living with Betty Brown, who raised Erica from infancy until April 2001.

This is a news story that came and went without much notice today. How the title ‘Mother’ could be used in reporting it makes me sick to my stomach. This woman and her husband are pure evil. There was a time when I would have wanted to take their heads myself. I've come to the point where I'm only heartsick by people like them now. One day even their memory will be forgotten. They will be dust under the feet of the righteous in the Kingdom of God. It's the children they abuse and murder that I care about now. Dear God...how could someone do this to a child?

My heart cries for Erica and all the children God has entrusted to adults that have abused and neglected them...then tossed them away like garbage. The world is full of such stories. Most don’t even make the news. Most are forgotten by the world as we go about our daily lives.

I know that NONE are forgotten by God. He will see to it that Erica knows His love.
Erica will breathe again. She will know the love she was denied in her short life. She will have a family that will treasure her and always be there for her. She will…because our Savior, Jesus the Christ, conquered death. She will be resurrected and made whole because Jesus the Christ is coming back.

All of the children, all of the human beings that have faced short miserable lives and been forgotten in their graves will breathe again. They will know the love of God. There will be no more tears or sorrow because the former things will have passed away.

For now...while you breath, while it is in your power...Love your children…Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

Jesus the Christ is coming back.