Authors-choice: Hope & Revival

When all the children leave home to start their own lives, empty-nester- parents do not have to live sad lonely lives, concerned about food and rest, anxiously awaiting children’s visits. Rather they can begin again, like the Mack couple.

According to lifesitenews, the D.C. couple was beginning life as empty nesters when they learned of a family crisis. Five siblings, all ages 10 and under, needed a home.
Tyrone and Karen Mack prayed, “Lord, what can we do?” and then agreed to adopt them all, Live Action News reports.
Now, the 55-year-olds are parents to young children once again. The five siblings plus the couple’s six grown children make the Macks parents of 11.
“… we decided to take all the kids and keep them together. I guess that’s what God wanted us to do,” Karen told the Washington Post.
On Nov. 18, 10-year-old Heaven, 7-year-old Chanel, 6-year-old Hakeem, 5-year-old Hayden and 2-year-old Jeremiah officially became members of the Mack family, according to the report.
They are the biological children of Tyrone’s niece, who has drug abuse and mental health problems and could no longer care for them. Tyrone said their biological fathers have not been around to take care of them either.
Initially, the Macks brought the girls and Jeremiah into their home, while the other boys were placed in separate foster homes, according to the report. But the Christian couple said they did not want the siblings to be separated.
“It was important that we kept them together,” Tyrone told the Washington Post. “So many people sit back and don’t give their all to kids that are not theirs. But if we didn’t step and take our place in their life, they wouldn’t be society ready.

And these children need it more so now because they are our future. They are our Congress. They are our president.”
Raising five young children comes with many challenges, but the Macks are committed. A Go Fund Me page has been set up to help the family buy a van.
And If we are honest, used textbooks and pass-me-down clothes reduces the costs of raising these unfortunate children yet gives much joy.
Granted, raising someone else’s child as your own, and not merely exploiting them as slaves or helps is in God a type of selflessness that takes effort. It’s even true that occasionally, adopted children or children of poor relatives ungrateful but same can happen with ones own biological children, yet that deos not negate the good done, and valua added to society.