China.
Month 10.
Sounded like it won’t be anytime soon when I began the journey. With a blink of an eye, it happened.
My team lived in a village, in the vicinity of Beijing. Witnessing how the villagers lived their daily life was an eye opener in a lot of ways.
We worked at a ministry site that had different activities. I was exclusively assigned to work in the foster home building that cared for kids with special needs. Those kids were born with a serious medical condition that needed expensive health care. They were abandoned by their parents mainly due to the inability to pay for the expensive medical cost.
The babies that didn’t speak taught me a lot of lessons. Some of them :
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It is a way of becoming the hands and feet of God to care for the abandoned. Such stories were written in so many places in the Bible
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Not to take my health for granted. Caring for the babies who had endured liver transplants in their tiny bellies, oh, God, thank you for the health you give me. I’m not thankful enough.
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Adoption is a beautiful way of providing for orphans/abandoned/abused/—- kids. How special!
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For the most part, babies whine when they are sick, and love to smile and play when they are healthy.
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It encouraged me to think about what I could do to care for abandoned children in the future.
And many more that mere words couldn’t explain.
God, thank you for this special month.
