Finally!! Spring has arrived and today's temperature is a perfect 75 degrees! This means (among many other things) that our front yard is teaming with kids throwing footballs and frisbees, jumping rope and blowing bubbles. Our walkway is covered with a collage of colors as little “artists” produce masterpieces using plastic buckets full of sidewalk chalk.
Springtime brings families out to their front porches to visit with friends and neighbors; others come out to set up their bar-b-que grills in time for supper. It's not at all unusual to see a parade of moms strolling their babies down the street, and t-shirts and jeans whipping in the wind on backyard clotheslines.
Unfortunately, these near perfect, picture post-card kind of days are marred when we see a dozen police cars whiz by and hear the Granny's House kids' rumoring, “there's a fight breaking out up the street!”
These events are unsettling for the kids, staff, and volunteers. Our number one priority is to quickly whisk everyone inside to safety and that's often hampered when some of the sixty kids want to run the opposite direction to find out why police cars and ambulances are racing through their neighborhood.
In our seven-year history at Granny's House, the Lord has wonderfully protected us and showered us with great peace, mixed with lots and lots of giggles. We anticipate His continued Peace and Presence and now we'd like to invite you to join us in praying for the neighborhood.
“Just as Jerusalem is protected by mountains on every side, the Lord protects his people by holding them in his arms now and forever.”
-Psalm 125:2 (Contemporary English Version)
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