James 1:27
I saw something today I have never witnessed before. I knew it existed, but never saw it. I was out running an errand when I saw a homeless child. Child. He could not have been more than 7 or 8 years old. He was incredibly dirty, had no shoes. He had no one to take care of him. No one to give him food. No one to tell him they love him. Its getting colder here, dropping down into the lower 40s at night and will continue to get colder and colder. And he has no shoes and no where to go.
In the part of town I live in, you don't see this much. There are a few beggars around, but not in great numbers here, and not children. This came as a shock to my system. In the States there are places where children like this can go. And normally if they are homeless they are at least homeless with their parent(s). Here, this kid was on his own. Alone in an unforgiving, cold world.
I miss the food from home, he has no food.
I complain that they shut off the electricity for 10 hours a day, he doesn't even have a home to have electricity.
I complain that I don't always have hot water for a shower, he hasn't had a shower in who knows how long.
I miss my family, he has no family.
And what is most ironic, is that this sort of thing happens because we have let ourselves become polluted by the world.
2 comments:
Hi,
I have been a lurker on here for a few weeks now. I am finding it fascinating to read about your adventures. This one broke my heart though. I can not even fathom the idea of a homeless child, all alone in the world. And at such a young age. That is so not the type of world God imagined I am sure.
Even after working with them in India, the idea of a homeless child still baffles my mind. There are a lot of things wrong with the world but in my mind few things could be more wrong than an unwanted or abandoned child.
Post a Comment