God Bless the ALH Boys!
I have been blessed to have the opportunity to work with some of the nicest boys in Thailand…well at least that I have met anyway. It is now mine and my team mate Jillian’s responsibility to take care of the five orphans (ages 12-14) and Apilak a one year old little boy, at the Abundant Life Home every Friday and Saturday. This is fun, but not at all an easy thing to do.
There names are:
- June (Joon)
- Golf (Gulp)
- Thoa (Daow)
- Mac
- Bunn
These boys have all been diagnosed with HIV except for Apilak, who did have HIV and then one day was miraculosly healed!
It is our responsibility to feed the boys, make sure they do their chores, go to bed etc. The hardest thing that we MUST do, is remember to give them their medicine at exactly 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. this is very expensive medicine that is being donated by a generous company and is many hundreds of dollars.
I don’t really have a problem giving the boys their medicine because all we do is wake them up and they do the rest. The only thing that is so hard for me, is giving June his eye drops. June was born with serious eye and ear complications and he has extreme allergies that irritate his eyes (there is a chance he could go blind).
Every time I have to give him the eye drops, he goes through the same routine. First he hides the bottle, then he hides himself and then he buries his face, but in the end he just sits back and accepts the obvious pain, in order to be healed. Although it hurts me to see this pain, I know what is best for him.
I have been thinking a lot about the pain that we experience in our lives
We are blind! God knows the cure. Although it hurts God to administer the treatment, He will heal us if we ask. We can hide our sickness in the dark and never admit our problems, hide our bodies from God’s sight and refuse all help. Or lay down at the foot of the cross and say, “heal me!”
Love,
Fauna
