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I sit her and wonder where has time gone, can’t we pause it, I am not ready to leave yet. My heart is throbbing for Hope and Joy, I love them passionately, they are beautiful children of God. God are you sure we have to leave, I am not finished investing in these women.
Thankfully we were given a little more time to love on these precious women and invest time in them. However it was going to probably be the last time we see these women, at least Hope, she is done working in the bars on Sunday because her boyfriend from Australia is coming here, and we aren’t going back until Tuesday. The thought of leaving her broke my heart but I couldn’t ponder on goodbye just yet, I still work that needed to be done.
We wanted to break down all walls the last time we hung out, just break loose, be free, and have lots of fun, so what better way to do that then make a fool out of yourself bowling. We invited the girls and they picked Friday which was a national Buddhist holiday so they wouldn’t be working, we wanted to go Saturday but if they want to be with us rather than pray to Buddha like they are supposed to on this day, we are not passing the chance up!
So the next day we sat there, and the clock hit three o’ clock now it is 3:15.. 3:30.. oh jeeze Lord are they going to show, I understand that you have provided in unbelievable ways this month, I haven’t really been turned away or rejected so maybe it was time for me to feel what it felt like to be Jesus, to be let down, forgotten, and rejected. While I tried to rest my mind on that thought and tried putting my heart to rest I still wasn’t ready to say goodbye..
Ahh finally my phone rings.. Hello? Swadeeka where are you? I am at bowling where are you? Click.. uhhh ok, I don’t know what that meant. So Jessica Julie and I walk across the hall to see what movies are playing, if they aren’t going to show up why not enjoy our own girls day out.
Two beautiful girls fully clothed, who look some what familiar start coming up the escalator.. Jessica asks me if that is them.. it looks like it, maybe.. oh Lord please let it be them. They turn the corner and surprise it is, huge smiles and joy fill our hearts and faces.
We go into the bowling alley, pay for a game, pick our table, trade our shoes, put on our socks, lace up our
very stylish shoes, pick our ball, take some pictures and the fun began. Finally I met someone who is just as bad at bowling as I am, we had a time of nothing but fun and laughter, a time where we just enjoyed each other presence, taking pictures, laughing, making goofy videos, getting to know each other more deeply, and just being awful gutter ball bowlers together.
We got to share more about our ministry with them and shower them in love. I got to talk to Hope more about her boyfriend, who she is extremely excited to see and really get to pour into Joy who I knew very little about
She is 35 though the way she looks when working at the bar could have you fooled. She has two children, one son dies 5 years ago of cancer on the hip, which of course broke my heart, and has another son who is five years old now and living with her mother. She has been in the bars for year, no boyfriend, or husband, she is here to make money, and doesn’t know any other life, this is normal to her.
After an exciting game it was time to say the long drawn out goodbyes, it took what felt like thirty minutes just to say bye, of course it probably felt longer because no one wanted to say bye. They invited us to walk around 
with them but couldn’t we had a bus to catch to save money getting home.
They told us thank you for everything and they love us. I didn’t understand this, it is a statement that set with me for a while ‘thank you for everything’ what do you mean we did nothing special, we just loved you, and what started as a relationship of reaching out to you to get you out of the bars, provide you with hope, and sharing the Gospel with you turned into a sister like bond. These are two girls that my heart throbs for, I love them deeply, my heart breaks for them, I cry out to God for them, these are two girls filled with much Joy and Hope. These are two girls that I will remember forever, and for Hope I may never see her again.
