FEELING BLESSED

What better way to spend your Sunday afternoon then at the local orphanage…and that’s exactly what we did! We decided to stop by on Sunday to say Hello and play with a few of the kids who we had met a few weeks ago. We started a game of Frisbee but the two youngest boys, Henry and Daniel, quickly pulled me away from the game.  Henry kept running over to the side of the building where you could see the sun setting. He would run over, squint his eyes up at the sun, giggle and run away! I game him my sunglasses and they both oohed and awed as they looked through them without hurting their little eyes.

When we first got there Daniel filled my pockets full of little flowers…. later on Henry, Daniel and I all had flowers behind our ears and in our hair! I felt bad because they pretty much ripped all the flowers off the little bush…oops!

Last night we watched a movie based in Africa about two mothers who work together to help prevent malaria. After watching it I realized how blessed I am to have the opportunities I have to serve on a daily basis! If I had watched that movie back in Canada I would have immediately wanted to book a flight to Africa and go and help the children. Yet here I am living in the middle of it all and I don’t even realize how blessed I am! It really made me count my blessings and reminded me to cherish the moments that I get to spend serving the people and children of this country.