Children without Mother and Fathers
It does not seem possible that there can really be children without mothers and fathers to give them all the love in the world and spoil them. I cannot imagine it. I cannot imagine being without a mother and father and all the taken-for-granted-security that goes with growing up in your own family.
These children in the orphanage in India line up for a snack and are grateful. They don’t fuss and say they want Oreos instead. They quietly accept what’s given. I assume they get only one snack each because that’s all that the kind and generous people who take care of them have the means to give. The children understand this and appreciate what is given. How they must appreciate. I hope they know they are deserving of all the gifts of the universe.
I, for one, would like to see them have an opportunity to misbehave.
I would like to see them go to the refrigerator for themselves and take whatever they want and spill things. I would like to see them be rowdy in the supermarket. I would like to see them have the security to be naughty and willful and as mischievous as can be and still know with certainty that they are wanted and loved.
It seems to me that it’s hard enough being a child who has his own mother and father. Even with a mother and father and brothers and sisters, it’s easy to feel as though we don’t quite belong and aren’t always really welcomed by the universe.
Robert Frost wrote something like this:
Home is where, if you have to go back, they have to take you.
May these children know deeply in their hearts that God is their Father and that they are at Home always.
I know there has to be a blessing in every situation. Certainly these children provide the opportunity for others to give. Certainly, these children themselves are a blessing. May God bless their lives with untold treasures.
More photos below: You’ll see the girls having lunch, meditating, posing. You’ll see Kambala who started this facility and who grows the grass to feed the milk-giving buffalo, the buffalo that gives milk for the children,the girls all dressed up getting some kind of treat, and photo of administratiion.
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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