As we left the village, I looked
at my kids and every one of them was covered in red dirt. Their clothes, their shoes, their bodies and
faces, all covered in red dirt…..
Driving into the Wakisi village, we
planned to stop and check on the kids and make sure their Jaja had returned
from Kenya (Blog post: Break
my heart for what breaks Yours) After visiting for awhile we got ready to
get back in the van and drive further into the village to the school, where we
do the children’s outreach. Just before
we left, the ladies told Kari about a baby that had just been born across the
road. Never missing a chance to see a
baby and check on a new mother, Kari and Hadlee went over to the new momma’s
house. The lady greeted them in the front yard while doing all her laundry by
hand. She had just had the baby the day
before with no assistance. No hospital
bed, no nurse, no doctor and definitely no epidural. Just like so many other women in the village,
she had her baby right there on the dirt floor of her hut. Life goes on; the next day there was laundry
to do and meals to cook. As I saw this
woman washing her clothes by hand I realized what strength and what resolve the
people of the village have. They have
to, there is no choice.
These last few months God has
been working on my heart, He has shown me that I do not have to have some
program or well laid out plans to show His love. I saw firsthand His love that day as my 5
year old daughter washed clothes in a basin and hung them out to dry. I saw His love as my children ran through the
village, through the banana plants having fun and just being kids. I saw His love as
the village kids taught our kids to play a game with sticks and a tire. I saw His love as Pierce played in the red
dirt with his friends. I saw His love in a mother working hard to keep her
family going only one day after having a baby.
James 1:22 “But prove
yourself doers of the Word, and not merely hearers……
Know it, show it, live it!
As the title says, the kids were covered in “A little (ok a lot of) red dirt. I could not have been happier and my heart could not have been fuller.
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