Your heart will break...

My friend Meredith wrote this beautiful poem that reminds me of so many orphans that are left to die without a mommy, a daddy. Without ever hearing the words, "I love you." Without ever being rocked to sleep, without ever being held.
No one knew they came and lived in our midst. Their absence today goes unnoticed. What is the meaning and value of life? Is it more than the walls of an institution and a cage called crib?
These precious and beautiful children, disposed by the world, yet, created fearfully and wonderfully by God! God's work of art, buried under the ground, and no one even knows. Who will cry for them, who will mourn their loss?

While we were...let's not forget...

While we were eating...
... they were hungry

While we were playing...
... they were restrained

While we were tucking our kids into bed...
... they were alone

While we turned up the heat...
... they laid in the icy cold

While we wrapped our children in blanket sleepers...
... they laid in their own excrements

While we sang songs and listened to music...
... they listened to the screams and cries of those around them

While we rocked our babies...
... they silently rocked themselves

While we hugged our kids...
... they scratched at their own faces and pulled their own hair for stimulation

While we cried over scraped knees...
... they moaned in their loneliness

While we brushed our daughters' beautiful hair...
... they had their heads shaven to stave off the lice

While we fought off the flu with love and nourishment...
... they got the flu and went Home.

No longer suffering... but so many more still are.

In memory of those that have never felt the love of a family, but have passed away alone. Today we learned of the passing of these two girls in Eastern Europe.

Margarita



Katarina


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