Changing Chapters
Just a couple weeks ago, in Thailand, the children of the Freedom House Orphanage signed this Karen Bible for me. In talking to them, Mercy Htoo gave me one of my funnier memories.
I had the chance to talk to her, as she had good English, and asked her story. She was born in a refugee camp, and had spent all of her 15 years there, except for time where she was in CFI’s vocational school. After finding a bit out about her, she wanted to find out a bit about me, and started by asking if I had any children. When I told her no, and that I was single, she looked at me with eyes full of sympathy, and said, with the compassionate sincerity that only a teenage girl can muster, “Aww, I’m sorry.”
I hope that I didn’t offend her by laughing, but she was able to get information out of me that I don’t normally give, viz., my age. It was necessary to convince her that being single was really OK.
In just the few short weeks since talking to her, Mercy Htoo’s life has changed almost unimaginably. She has become the first of the children out of the Freedom House Orphanage to be resettled to the United States.
Friends, I cannot even imagine this. I have to wonder whether she’s even ridden a bus before, much less taken an airplane ride to the opposite side of the world and a brand new culture and a brand new life. She will be living with people she doesn’t know in a brand new location in a whole new world.
Pray for her, please, and pray for those that will follow her. Pray that they would get through the mess of bureaucracy easily, and pray for the families that will be caring for them. Especially, please, please pray that their spiritual heritage will be reinforced at every step along the way.
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My Thoughts on Ambassadors