This morning I woke up at 5:40 not ready to get up and go to visit little ones in the nursery until noon. When my team mate and I arrived at the orphanage we walked in and the beginning of our morning consisted of holding babies, feeding toddlers, bathing them, cleaning up after them, and playing endless games with them. About half way through my morning a team from Singapore came into the orphange and started playing with the babies and children. They also began to set up for worship and a skit. As a walked downstairs carrying little Rose, I had no clue how much the next hour would impact me. They began with a few worship songs and a skit. It was starting to wrap up when a lady came up to sing, she said that this song would be each childs prayer and began to sing the most beautiful and heart breaking song I’ve ever heard. She started repeating “oh Lord, please send me a father. Thats all I ask of you.” My father is a protector, the financial provider for my family, he is strong, but kind, stern, but loving. He holds my family together. I lost it. Tears began streaming down my face as I looked around at the beautiful faces of these children. They did not have what I had, they had the opposite. The stories that these children have are horrific and something that I’m not sure I could go through alone, but they did, and at such a young age. Little Rose was asleep on my lap and I closed my eyes and began to pray for each of the children. I opened my eyes and my heart broke even more when I realized I was not the only one crying. They’re crying out for a father. An earthly father. And thats all they’re asking for. I began to look back on my life and see all the blessings I had and still have. I have not only a father, but a family who continuously loves me, yet I was still not content. I always wanted something more, whether it was materialistic or not. How selfish. All these children want is a family, and a place to call home. I pray for each of you reading this that your mindset would shift, as mine is beginning to. That our eyes would be opened to what others want or need, not what you want or need. Also, if you would begin to pray with me for these children that they would all find a home and a family.
