Each morning we
take time to do something together as a team before the boys get home from
school around lunchtime. Today we wrote letters to the boys. The first letter I
wrote was to a special boy who’s made quite the imprint on my heart.
To give you an
idea of my connection with this specific boy, here is a note from my team
leader Heidi that she wrote to encourage me in this relationship.
“Do for one what you wish
you could do for a thousand.�
– Mother Teresa
Taylor,
I feel like this quote is such a perfect picture of your
love for Gupta (name changed). God has blessed you with the opportunity to do
for him what your heart is to do for so many children.
Keep trusting it’s good, and blessed, and enough. How
awesome it is that the lord would send yo thousands of miles away and spend
thousands of dollars for one child whom He loves.
My Gupta is six
years old, and so sweet. As I was writing to this special boy (I do believe
that all of the boys at the home are special), I got so sad. It felt like I was
writing a goodbye letter to him. The thought of saying goodbye is awful. Just
plain awful. To a boy who I don’t know if I’ll ever see again.
But as I was
telling God all of this (venting a little), He reminded me, “You’ll see him in
heaven.� Oh what a sweet reminder. I don’t know if I’ll see my sweet boy again
in this life. I pray by God’s power and grace that I do. But even if I don’t,
we’ll be reunited someday. And then we can hug each other and dance and laugh,
all in the presence of our heavenly Father. And it will be better than anytime
we hugged or danced or laugh together here on this earth.
