I read this personal narrative by Jesus Montes (16 years old) over at Cindy’s blog Saturday morning, over breakfast…and since Saturday, been at a loss for words.
Please go read it! I mean it PLEASE GO READ IT!
For 10 years Jesus has been able to wake up in the same bed every morning.
For 10 years Jesus has not been hungry.
For 10 years Jesus has been able to have a school, a community and an advocate.
10 years in the same place is huge, for those of us how have had to stuff everything we own into trash bags and move on time and time again…we know.
The fact is that there will always be kids like Jesus…Always.
And those kids we need to continue to speak up, for those kids we need to fight for openness and honesty, for those kids we need to tell our stories. We owe it to them.
And whether Jesus, grows up one day to be an outspoken happy grateful adoptee or a reformer, I hope we can all respect him, and his story…
Because there will always be kids like Jesus…
Always.
