Today we received an email that a child came to our project with her mouth badly burned. When checking on what happened, the mother laughed and admitted she did it because the child was sucking her bottom lip!
I was glad that before that report, I got another one a few days ago. One of our missionaries, Ruth Ann Gowin, was badly burned and scared in an accident when she was young. The children at ECM's Haven of Hope home have been asking her if it was her mother who burned her, or someone else. They refuse to believe her pleas that the scar resulted from an accident. One of the boys came over and patted her arm tenderly, tears flowing down his cheeks in sympathy for her perceived hurt.
If the children can learn to utlilize that empathy that they learned from being so hurt themselves, there is great hope for them. They are deeply wounded, yes. But already they are wounded healers. Thank you, Lord, for letting me be a part of that.
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