Life Doesn't Seem Fair, Sometimes

Just wanted to write a quick post. A. has been back from camp since last Saturday, and my son left for camp two days later (Monday). These past two weeks have been different! Each child being gone takes something away from the day to day workings of our family. The importance that each child plays within our family becomes obvious when any one child is gone for an extended period of time. Sure, there are a lot of times when I feel the peacefulness of having one less child around, but other times I really miss saying good morning or good night. I love all of my kids so much. I can't imagine living without any one of them.

I just heard a story about a mom who a few years back felt the necessity to call the child welfare agency on her daughter. She felt her daughter was neglecting her child and after much agonizing over the situation, she decided to make the call to the welfare agency. There was naturally an investigation which resulted in the Agency taking the child from the mom and custody was awarded to the grandma (the lady who made the call). Three years later, which brings us to now, the bio dad has stepped into the picture out of the blue, after having had little to no contact with the child over those three years, and in no time at all the courts awarded him custody of the child. This poor little child was torn from her grandma's home and arms and taken to a place far away in another state where she did not know the people who now were taking care of her. Biological dad was a total stranger. This little child knew only her grandma as the person who loved and took care of her. How could any judge do such a thing? I don't care at all that this "dad" was the child's biological father, he had not been in her life for three years. How could the best possible outcome for the child be that she be removed from her home where she felt loved and safe for the past three years and be put with perfect strangers? How could this be best? The child's grandma who originally made the call to the child welfare agency, thinking she was doing what was best for her grandchild, now has not only lost her own daughter because of the anger between the two of them, but she has now also lost her grandchild who she raised for three years. Life just doesn't seem fair sometimes. Yes, I still trust in God to be in control and to do what is best for everyone, but it doesn't mean that I understand why He lets certain things happen! So I repeat, life just doesn't seem fair, sometimes.