Our team was able to have a question and answer
time with Jerry and Suzy McNally. Jerry was able to discuss a lot of details of
his journey whit us. One piece of this story that stuck out to me was the way
God spoke to him. When Jerry asked God “how” God answered by telling him what
the end results of his efforts would be, I can imagine this only made Jerry ask
“how” even more!
It reminded me of the story of Abraham when God
tells the Barron couple their descendants will outnumber the stars in the sky.
We know from reading the rest of the story that indeed Abraham and Sarah
scratched their heads many times and asked “how”.
In our morning devotional our team member Petra
reminded us what he scriptures tell us about being child like. Children are
told what to do and given rules to follow often times without understanding
why. During my last stay at Esperanza Viva the rules had to follow lasted 2
months instead of a week. I was 17 and even thing I still very much was a child
I did not think of myself that way.
I questioned the rules given to me several
times. On this trip, when Alejandra read us the rules she offered the
explanation “All of these rules were made because something bad has happened”
In my job in Minnesota I oftentimes am forced to offer he same exploration to
my clients who question rules they don´t like. Whit more wisdom and maturity
rules seem to make more sense in an effort to maintain community.
After our first day the kids my mother
expressed feeling ineffective. She does ´t speak Spanish. She did not feel
athletic enough to participate in basketball or soccer. She was not the team
member who was in charge of organizing charge crafts or songs.
I reminded her that she spent time playing Uno
with a young boy, “so what? she asked, it was one little boy”
While they´d been playing Uno I had been in
conversation whit Suzy McNally, she had been telling me the background nearby,
stories of a few of the children who crossed our path. One of these being the
small boy my mom was playing Uno with. He’d only recently arrived to the
orphanage. Having suffered physical and sexual abuse and neglect he had
behavioral challenges adjusting to the rules of the orphanage. Susy told me
this boy was often in time out and crying nearly even day. I watched Suzy and
Ivanna. (The supervisor of the little boys)
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