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Hunger
The doctor’s office was simple and bleak. The walls were empty except for the chipping beige paint on stone walls connected to a stone floor. There were two worn cots with a simple white sheet on each one and a small wooden desk with a chair on either side. This was the room where a young Somali mother brought her dying, infant son and the room where I came face to face with a malnourished baby. This wasn’t an infomercial and there were no famous actors and film crews pleading to me through the television. Less than a foot away from me…
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Interesting Mail Day
There were four items in my mailbox today: 1. Letter from my sponsored child in Kenya. 2. Letter from my sponsored child in Rwanda. 3. Packet from the America World Adoption organization. 4. The water bill. (not so exciting but small so that is good.) Just interesting to have such diversity in my mailbox related to children around the world. A great way to start off 2009! I’ve sponsored a boy in Rwanda for a few years now. His name is Sylvain and he is a handsome young man. I haven’t had a lot of personal communication with him but…