Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Past Memories

One of the problems with having been a farmer is the reminders I now have of things I saw on the farm. The smells in the orhpanages of the calf shed at home. I was reminded today, as I visited some homes, of the old farm sheds when they had the refuse cleaned out. I will never be able to adequately describe what I saw, this is often the case, you have to be there, you have to see it, you have to smell it. Can a photo show you even part of it, never. Would it even have been right to take a photo, no.

I have so much, food, clothing, a warm clean bed most of all hope. What do the people I met today have, little or nothing, almost none of the above. I saw one glimmer of hope though, drawn on a boarded up window was a heart with a cross on top. For some there is hope, they have accepted Him. They know Jesus love as a major reality. They choose life maybe not an easy life now, but in the end they choose life. We have so much its hard for us to realise thats the only choice worth making, choosing Jesus.

I have tried to give a glimpse of this morning, we took food, we prayed for them. Can I say anything more? Think again when you meet badly behaved kids, when you meet people who smell, you do not know where they come from. It was they who Jesus came for.

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