His name was Peiwah. It was November 8, 2018. About 11:58 am in Swaziland. The sun was shining, but we were sitting on the shady bench and it was the perfect temperature. I wore Julie’s blue and white stripped skirt with a black shirt tied up on my right side. It smelled of dirt and African wind. He had the sweetest smile. He sat on my lap and has I tickled him his teeth showed in a smile that branched across his face. I love him.
So I kissed my lil three year old friend on the forehead.
This young boy is honestly such a adorable child! He loves to color and just be loved. He enjoys being tickled, but no doubt will tickle you back. His laugh is contagious! Like as contagious as chicken pox folks! It is so amazing that God has given me the opportunity to love on him and the other kids! God has trusted us with doing his work and ministering to the people here. Peiwah’s great aunt is one of the selfless women who prepare meals for the kids each and every day (Gogo Sweetness). His grandfather often comes and sits at the carepoint watching his grandchildren have fun.
Peiwah is such a cute lil boy and I do wish I could bring him home, but more than that I wish and pray that he would be able to understand God’s love at this age. I pray he would know that with each time I chase him, that God is running even harder after him to bring him back to Jesus. That each time he smiles with happiness from being tickled, that God can give him an everlasting joy that with stands hard trials of this world. That each time Liz serves him lunch, that Jesus can completely satisfy his hunger problem. Because when people say that there is world hunger, they aren’t kidding!!! The world has a serious hunger issue and they don’t know that they can be fully filled up and satisfied in Christ. The world is hungry for a never ending, faithful love and relationship that can only be found in Jesus. I pray that Peiwah would grow up and become a man of God, that God would use me simply as a planter, to plant a seed of what true love looks like. And he would know that the love he is receiving is not of my own being. It is simply an overflow of the grace, mercy, and love that Jesus has saturated me in. We should never be pulling from our own reserves in order to love on people. We can’t love on others if we aren’t filled up by the Lord. Everything we do should simply be an overflow of what the Lord has already given to us.
In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
