While you and I grew up in ways that many who had loving parents will never understand; I want you to know that God is aware of you. Jesus knows and understands how you feel when you hear all this talk about families. I know how bad you feel to know that your parents were not loving and kind. They did not teach you to pray, nor protect you.
I know that God wants you to know that He loves you. For you, He has great blessings in store if you accept the Atonement of Jesus Christ. If you will read the Holy Scriptures, and listen to the living prophets, knowing that God loves you, you will feel His Holy Spirit and learn this fact for yourself.
I know that when you hear truth, sometimes it makes you angry. I have felt that way as well, before I knew that God’s family is really my family. I want you to know that when you put your name in the scriptures it can help you to understand what is really being said by the Holy Spirit.
In the scriptures you will read of many who did not have parents who were ideal. Many of them chose to follow God and they in turn blessed many thousands of those who came after them.
I share with you words of a song that was written by Matthew Neeley. While he wrote this for little children who know who they are, these words are for you and me and all of God’s children around the world. I have inserted my own words in brackets.
“Our Father has a family. It’s me!
It’s you, all others too: we are His children.
He sent each one of us to earth, through birth,
To live and learn here in fam’lies. (don’t stop reading)
A father’s place is to preside, provide,
To love and teach the gospel to his children.
A father leads in fam’ly prayer to share
Their love for Father in Heaven. (don’t stop reading)
A mother’s purpose is to care, prepare,
To nurture and to strengthen all her children.
She teaches children to obey, to pray,
To love and serve in the fam’ly. (don’t get upset. Keep reading)
I’ll love and serve my family and be
A good example to each fam’ly member.
And when I am a mom or dad, so glad, (keep reading)
I’ll help my fam’ly remember:
God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—
This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God."
Words and music: Matthew Neeley
© 2008 by Matthew Neeley. All rights reserved. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use. This notice must be included on each copy made.
These words are truth. Never, never, never give up. No matter how hard life was, you can make it better. Really, you can.
There were those who wrote these truths many years ago. In one song, words written by Robert Keen about 1787, the words gave me hope and still continue to bless my life:
“The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose
I will not, I cannot, desert to his foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no never, I’ll never, no never,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake!”
I know this is truth, it has been proven to me in times past. I pray you will read and listen and then prove rather God's words are truth or not. I hope you will come to know for yourself that what I share is truth. 
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