“Put her down!” a lady yells at me. I was very confused as to why she was yelling at me to put down a baby that was crying, but I listened. As I was putting her down she explained to me that we cannot hold the kids because when we are not there they do not get held a lot and they do not want them to get used to being held. “So you can play with her, but you can’t hold her.” Honestly, that did not make sense to me at all but whatever I listened to her. However, it was at that point my heart broke for the children.
This child is being raised in an orphanage where there are 10 other babies and toddlers. The parents of these children did not pass away, they did not even bring them to the orphanage. No ,the parents just left their kids on the streets. The kids were then found by others and brought to the orphanage. These kids may never have a normal childhood.
Every child deserves to be loved. Every child deserves to be held. Every child deserves to be pick up and consoled when they are crying. Yet these children are not getting that. They do not get to be held as much as they should. They do not get that one on one time with their parents like a lot of other babies do. They do not always get to be held when they are crying. These kids did not choose this life. My heart breaks for these children.
The lady yelled at me in the morning to put a baby down. However, when the afternoon came I just could not take seeing all these kids that want to be held but no one was holding them. So I went over to the little girl I was holding when the lady yelled at me, I picked her up and I held her in my arms for about an hour because she deserves to feel loved! Did she cry when I put her down? Absolutely, but then again a lot of babies will cry, but she settled down.
I will never regret that hour I was holding this little girl because I got to tell her the three most important words she will ever hear in her life, “Jesus loves you.” Even though she isn’t even 1 year old yet I know in some way she understood because for the first time she looked up at me and smiled.
