These two little girls have changed my life.
Changed the way I view the world. Changed the way I view myself. Without even
knowing it, their hugs have helped to heal the deepest parts of my heart.
They live in a girls rescue home here in
Thailand. The come from a family where their parents are in a homosexual
relationship (one of them is a 'lady boy'.) The eldest of the twogirls use to
be forced to skip school and work like an adult to help earn money for her
family. When coming to the rescue home they were both malnourished and pretty
broken kids... but now they are healthy little girls, bubbling with joy and
often singing praise songs to God.
The other day the youngest of the two was
angry at me. She wouldn't talk to me or look at me. I kept praying "Lord,
what have I done? How can I fix this?"
Not long after my prayer, I approached her
and asked why she was angry? She simply said (trying her hardest to speak
English) "You, Photo, Sister"
And then I realised what was wrong. I had
spent the last couple of hours playing with her sister (taking photographs
together) while she was off playing with some of the other kids.
So, I offered to play with her one on one.
We sat together playing 'Angry Birds' on my IPhone. She smiled at me and high
fived me everytime she passed a level. As I sat their with her I realised that
this sweet little girl was just after some more love and attention!
I sit here wondering to myself...
'How many children will God put before me to love? 1, 50, 100, 2,000, 1 million?' However many it is, I choose
to say "Yes!" because each and every child he has already put before
me, has changed my heart in their own unique way- forever!