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“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

– Mother Teresa –
 

We rode the bus through Ho Chi Minh City to arrive at a local children’s hospital for cerebral palsy patients. Our team was instructed to remove our shoes before being escorted up stairs to the nursery.  I walked into the hospital room. It was large with cribs side by side by side throughout the whole room.  One nursing assistant sat on the floor, dressed in light blue, feeding a child rice soup.  While another assistant changed sheets in a crib behind her. The windows were wide open allowing us to easily hear to hustle and bustle of city life. What caught my attention immediately was that there was not one parent in sight – not one. Our translator explained it is very common for Vietnamese to simply leave their children at the hospital after giving birth.  Can you imagine?  Can you imagine carrying a child to full term and giving birth?  Can you imagine feeling the kicking of your unborn child day after day for nine months and then leaving? Walking out.  Gone. Forever.  It  is unbelievable to me. But today, I held the unbelievable in my arms.  For an entire afternoon our team fed, held, cleaned and loved the outcast children of Vietnamese society.

 
“Love in it’s truest form has no language or words,


it just has a thousand and one actions
we all wish we could describe.”


– Kenneth B. Emery –
 

It was a beautiful afternoon, but it leaves me asking some of life’s greatest questions.
Why?
Why God?
Why God is there injustice in this world?
Why God is there so much pain in life?
Why were these children abandoned?
God you claim to be good.  Why do you command me to believe you are good, when I am holding a little bundle of pain?

 
I began walking with Jesus in college. At that point in my life it was extremely important that I gave my life to a belief that is true.  I did not want to get to the end of my life and realize I wasted the one shot I have to live well.  I believe the Bible is truth, and Jesus Christ is the one Savior of the world. Thus, I resolved to live my life, as best I can, for the honor and glory of Jesus Christ.   In the Bible God describes His character as good.  “Taste and see that the Lord is good”  Psalm 34:8.  In the resolution to follow Jesus, I commit to trust His character.  I trust that He claims to be good and that alone is enough- more than enough. He is enough for me. He is enough for you. He is enough for all people. He is enough for all cultures. He is enough for all nations. He is enough.  He loves the unlovable.  He hears the unheard. He touches the untouchable. And above all else He is a Father to the fatherless. So as I hold abandoned children in my arms, I trust that God is good. In injustice and pain that seem to oppose the character of God, I left that hospital assured that when God says He is a Father to the fatherless, He is exactly that.
 
 
 “Sing to God, sing praise to His name, extol Him who rides on the clouds – his name is the Lord. and rejoice before Him.  A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.”
Psalm 68: 4 – 5