I believe in silver lining.
I remember taking an art therapy class and drawing a music box
surrounded by a lot of dark colors, but with a shining silver lining. I can’t now recall the prompt but I still
remember the lining. Times can be hard,
emotions can be dark, but that is never the whole story.
This month started off looking overwhelming. We spend a single hour at Sarah’s Covenant
Home (SCH) our first day in India and the consensus was, “oh my! We are coming
here every day for the next 3 weeks?!” We weren’t exactly thrilled at the
thought; but it is just what we did.
Every morning at 10 we got into an auto and drove to the orphanage. We taught, played, colored, helped, cleaned,
fed and loved on the children and ayahs (caretakers) living at SCH.
As a person who loves to talk, discuss and learn, being in a
ministry with infants that can’t commincate was challengeing. Hoever, God blessed my desire to do His work
in every situation. I found that places
I felt useful. I helping teach the older
boys in the “school” and feed the young immobile boys at lunch time. The hours didn’t gly by, but they felt
producative, worthwhile and blessed by God.
One day we came to work and there were new children, kids we
hadn’t seen before. Turns out, these
“new” kids live at SCH but attend school during the day. Well one of the little boys stole my heart
with his big eyes and ability to speak! He is 6 years old and very smart. He clung to me just the right amount, didn’t cry
and proved to be very self-sufficient.
Andrew was my silver lining.
His big eyes shine and his bright smile lit up my heart. Like all the SCH kids, he is taught basic
sign language. On my last day he held up
his hand, palm out with pinkie, index finger and thumb up, the sing for “I Love
You.”
I LOVE YOU TOO ANDREW.
