Court hearing - Ryan
Today was day one of the hearing for my appeal I filed over being found "guilty" in the eyes of the Department of Child Services of child abandonment. This, without so much as a hearing to listen to what I had to say. These charges aren't criminal in nature and really don't affect my life one way or another, but they do affect me mentally.
Frankly, it irritates the crap out of me that in order to save the rest of my family from being victimized by Ryan, the choice to have him removed results in my reputation being smeared. So I chose to fight them and try to get their decision overturned. The case is at the state level now, being heard by a judge from Indianapolis.
I think day one went pretty well for us, with my attorney getting in many good points on cross examining the caseworker. The hearing continues next week.
As I sat in the car waiting to go in, I was dreading it. Not the hearing itself so much, as the long walk down the street from where I parked. So I just sat and prayed for a bit, listening to a Christian radio station while I waited.
Finally, there was no more time to linger and I knew I HAD to get going. Just as I was about to turn the car off, the announcer read the verse of the day:
Psalm 138:8 (NLT)
for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever.
Don’t abandon me, for you made me.
