break my heart for what breaks Yours

June 6, 2011
Today was our first full day at Maria's Big House of Hope. We got the grand tour in the morning and spent most of the day playing with the kids. They are adorable! Their personalities and joy shine past and through whatever physical limitations they might have. Although we are tempted to feel sorry for them and pity them, they have no reservations about their physical limitations. They love and smile and laugh despite what we may term their circumstance as tragic. They simply want to be held and loved and to make a connection with someone. Each precious little child I interacted with kept looking at me in the eyes, as if they were asking me if I was really there and really willing to love them just the way they are.



Seeing these courageous little children and how they have handled the circumstances in their lives makes me think so much about who I am and how I have handled adversity in my life. In their innocence, they don't see anything different about themselves. They don't whine or complain about their lot in life, they are still so open and caring. Perhaps part of it has to do with the fact that most of them don't talk yet! But most likely we would say they just don't understand reality yet, but I'm beginning to think that maybe they understand better than any if us do. It makes me think about what has changed in me as a person to have moved from this innocence of a child to this self-pity and woe is me attitude as an adult? Maybe it isn't just me, but we as a human race as a whole. There is this radical shift from simple understanding and love and faith of a child to this vortex of thoughts and opinions and reasons and theories that we rationalize as adults. I am finally beginning to realize why God said the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these, when referring to the little children.

Dear Lord, renew in my heart a child like faith and innocence. Thank you for using these children to teach me and to grow me. I pray our team will continue to bless and minister and serve these children and the staff here at MBHOH for the remainder of the week. Amen.

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