HE CARES ABOUT US II

Sam Sifton, New York Times journalist wrote:

“I grew up reading the Harper’s Index, a collection of statistics that has run in Harper’s Magazine since 1984. There’s something both spare and illuminating about each one. The collected facts amount to a kind of poetry, as these three stanzas from the May 2026 issue suggest:

Percentage of Americans who say that, as children, they knew a compassionate, nonjudgmental adult: 35%

Percentage of these Americans who say that their mother was such a person: 50%

That their father was: 5%”

It may be ‘a kind of poetry’…but not very good poetry. Statistics are boring and insignificant until one of them jumps off the chart and rings our bell with a similar reality. The above facts might do that for some. These kinds of numbers speak of a deep hole in the perception of children to the kind of parenting they received. Without compassion we are just concrete and rebar socially.

But to those who did not receive compassion; there is a Father waiting to love, accept and be well-pleased with them.

“For the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from God.” Jesus