Several times in the Bible Jesus asks “What is it you want?”
or “What do you want me to do for you?”
These words repeat in my head over and over throughout the day. Many of the children are patient and figure a
way to communicate. With my depth of the
Spanish vocabulary of about 25 words and their depth of English (much higher
vocabulary than me), they have to do most of the describing. With that said, the communication barrier is
minimal. The reason for this is we all
have the common language of love. You
hug the children and they hug you right back, bigger and better.
This morning on the way to share circle time with the power
toddlers, one of the middle boys greeted us as we were walking. He had some sort of disability, so he did not
speak at all. He first hugged Tammy,
then Amy, then me. I decided I was going
to see who could hug the longest, me or him.
He won, but I put up a good fight.
Then he smiled at me and kissed my cheek. No words, just God’s love. It is a universal language.
Today, the children are in school for the first day since we’ve
been here. You can tell the school
children from those that don’t go to school by who is wearing a uniform and who
is not. The children wear matching
shirts, the girls in skirts, boys in jeans, all in socks and sneakers.
Now, back to power toddlers (I love that term), remember
these are all boys ages 3-7 (about).
They are not allowed to wear their shoes inside, so they come out with
socks in hand to put on their shoes. I
did not see a single boy with socks that did not have holes (not little holes),
big holes; the size of their heal. I see
a collection coming at Hillside y’all, so watch for sales on socks. I assume if the little socks have holes that
all the socks around the orphanage have holes.
We gathered the boys together for circle time. There were about 25 of them. I had one holding my right hand, one holding
my left hand and one holding onto my neck with his legs wrapped around my
waist. I had to put down the one after a
little while as he was heavy. One of the
teens from another team shared devotion (which is translated to the boys), then
we sang to them and they sang to us. It
was very precious.
Several of the older boys and men went to participate in a
pig slaughter. I think Carter will have
quite a story to share. They made a
video, but I really don’t think I want to watch. Kevin has the video if y’all want to see it
when we get back. All I’ve got to say
about that is, “ewwww”.
Today, we paint somewhere and something, but I’m not sure
what.
Pray for the children in the schools, their teachers and
especially those children that are not in school. There are many reasons a child might not be
in school, but today I will ask you to lift up the ones that have behavior
issues that have caused them to be suspended.
Pray that God will calm their hearts so they can go back and learn what
they can here at the orphanage which will prepare them for when it is time to
leave and live outside these gates. …Christy
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