. . . and the guilty shall pay

after several days of being out of touch with my work at the mission and drowing in campus ministry issues, i'm sitting here in my office reading the local paper trying to get caught up on several days of reading.

Headline: "Felasco gets one to seven years" -- just the first word caught my attention and i read the story - for the entire 4 years i've worked here at the mission there has been this drama in county government. the county treasurer decided to pocket over $47,000,000 in tax payer tax payments over the course of several years - it was brought to light alone with many other things two years ago. it has taken two years for the state to try him - yet all the while he remained in his county elected position and getting paid for it but not showing up to work. the state refused to remove him until the trail was over and he was either found innocent or guilty. well. . . early part of the summer he was found guilty on all charges as well as he was tried on several other theft charges from one other group he was involved him - thus, the headline -- the decision on this trail came down today.

as i sit here thinking how finally justice has been done - mr. felasco got what he deserved - i can't help but hurt for his daughter -- she didn't ask for any of this. since this all came out, one of our staff memebers has shared that his family has recieved much grief from the public - at times even down right nasty to his family. not only has she lost her stable home - felasco and his wife divorced, but she is now losing her daddy - even if he is a jerk - he's still her dad - and she is just a little girl - this has to be hard.

my prayer is that the church this little girl attends, which is also attended by one of our mission staff members, would help her see that her abba father will never let her down - He will never leave her - He will carry her. if there's anytime the body needs to function properly; it's now!

God use her church to reach this broken family for Your Glory!