The Streets!
Today been a hell of a day! Mixed with the good, the bad and the very ugly! But hey thats life here! I went to see a couple of my kids today. I was lucky enough to bump into an ex street couple yesterday, who asked me if I could help them buy something called a Garaffa in order to be able to cook in their very simple home! Thanks to the generosity of my friends I was able to say no problem to a relatively expensive need for these kids! Earlier I walked through the dusty streets of Cochabamba fighting through the roadblocks, in order to visit some street children now living in homes and watch a really cool cultural dance show! I had to deal with a pretty complicated couple situation that really breaks my heart to see. It was another reminder of the broken family and its devestation on society! My heart for my ministry is to be a repairer of these broken families and the kids they affect. Sometimes my approach can clash with the work of others because they put lesser priorities on dealing with the problem head on, I’m a get it at the root type of person and not everyone understands that! But I have seen the fruits of my labour so I am happy with the process and results!
Later I had a great catch up with a missonary family and their amazing adoptive kids over ice-cream! I have to say the day ended rather disappointingly! In an attempt to better co-ordinate work here with some of the long term kids I’ve worked with, I was once again reminded of any place of protection these kids need…from the workers! It’s a sad state of affairs but the work we do can very easily be interupted or at worst destroyed by the poorly planned ‘intervetion’ of others and its a sad day when you find yourself praying for children to be protected from the immature and misguided actions of others, but that is the work here! You have to work with all types, quite literally! Anyways thats the end of a day for me! Really looking forward to another big one tomorrow! Until next time blogging pals….
