Jon & Kate plus 8

**The following post written on Jun 2 2009 at 12:39AM**

Dear all,

TLC's TV series "Jon & Kate plus 8" has always been one of my favorites. It shows a family with eight children-- a set of twins and a set of sextuplets. The show just started its 5th season last Monday, but there seem to be so much issues going on--more than ever before.

I remembered the 1st season when the sextuplets were born and Jon & Kate wanted to document their lives as a big family thru the series. Every time I was excited to see the family on my TV screen. This fever did not end when I went to college; I loved watching Jon & Kate plus 8 whenever having the chance to.

With Jon and Kate separately making the headline news on different magazines, it is heartbreaking for me to finally come to realization that the family I've spent hours watching is falling apart. I couldn't believe it when I first heard the news from Joy (who learned it on TV). But after watching the new seasons for two weeks, I think I've seen enough of the hurtful ways to come to the conclusion that something's gotta change.

It is hard sometimes for me to think that "Jon & Kate plus 8" isn't just a TV show, that it is actually a normal family with an unusual way of living, consider it is being filmed and have little privacy. It is a family that also needs care and prayers from brothers and sisters just like any other families (I knew the family pursues, or has pursuit, Christ from watching one of the earlier episodes :).

To those of us who believe, instead of giving useless criticism like I did before by saying, "they should have dropped the show earlier" or "how could ______ (Jon and/or Kate) do such and such?" please join me in prayers for the family. This is not just a far away family that we see on TV-- this is a family of 10 and it belongs to God; this family was once everyone's favorite. The decisions Jon and Kate make will influence 8 young lives aside from their own lives.

May God be in their sight as Jon and Kate continue to make decisions for their big family. Let us pray for them in love!

Love in great sorrow,
Anna