Sorry for everyone that has been waiting for a new blog entry. Here it is.
I was in Los Guido today, as I am every single Saturday, doing the kids service in the morning. There are two boys in particular that I have been seeing every Saturday that I have gotten to hang out with a lot, and it always surprises me how much kids will attach to people that just love them. I’ve been to children’s homes and among different groups of street kids in Mexico and I experience the same thing. Some kids just seem like they are dying to be loved.
There was one boy I remember in particular from the children’s home I went to in Mexico. Most of the kids in these children’s homes are sent there because they are orphans or their parents can’t take care of them, or even because some of them have been sexually abused. One boy there was there because his mother couldn’t take care of him, and his mother had busied herself with having a boyfriend. In the end, his mother had come up to him and told him “I don’t love you.” After that he attempted suicide two times. Luckily he found help, or help found him, in time. Some are just dying to be loved.
Today, I saw something amazing. At the park where we were meeting, I saw the boy I had been hanging out with accept the sacrifice Christ made and alter his own destiny. Many would tell me that hes been pressured by the circumstances of his child hood, or peer pressured, but there is something I will never be able to explain in the way a child looks when he prays. Its faith and sincerity that can put any adult to shame. I love it. I want to see that every single day.
~Jared
