It's so hard to be in India and yet even harder to be in GA....I'm hoping my little gift makes it right to be anywhere, and especially India bc that's where my greatest loves are and where I have a burden for the lost and the hopeless that sometimes makes me wake up in the middle of the night in tears. I keep seeing one brother of the boys whose teeth are badly rotted and who mostly sits in their tent like home drunk and watching soap operas. I sat there with him and the boys many times within that 24hrs I was there, although we could not speak to each other directly. I saw a gentleness in his eyes and a very sensitive heart that is always in the house of mourning. The boys told me that he likes girl children a lot and gives them great respect. He is very quiet but I saw a very protective side when he yelled at a lady to get out of the house...she was making fun of me saying what do I eat snakes? We were supposed to give the brothers their Biblical names and explain and I think we named him Moses, but it didn't happen that time. I'm still hoping to do this w them soon. This brother is actually very special but without hope in this life, and it pains me that I can't hug him bc of the culture. He showed me his one of maybe a few possessions which was a poster of Jesus he had rolled up and put in between the poles that made the roof holding up tarp. He was very proud of it and made sure I understood it was his. I found out from the boys that when we showed a musical about Jesus one day over there, that all their brothers believed who Jesus was and now consider themselves to be Christian. These unmarried young adult orphans(17-30) are my very heart to live near the slum and start different ministry projects there. My dream is to hire them one day and give them a place to live and work where there is joy and hope in abundance. This brother told me with the boys translating that he likes to cook when he is angry. He chopped vegetables for the curry that day one little piece at a time with such great patience and love. Most people in India would consider him to be the most undesirable friend, but I see Jesus in him more than anyone I've met in more lovely places or who are from higher castes, and I can't wait to spend more time with him. The souls that live at the bottom are where you find the true treasures💎
“He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.”
Isaiah 53:3 NKJV
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