Day 98

I am finished with my ten things for the day. I only have two days to go!! It has been a busy day today. I did most of the same things today. I went through my jewelry box today. I keep jewelry in it but I have a few other prized possessions in it too.My daughters 7th grade ASB card . It is one of my favorite pictures of her. I ran across my sister in laws cowboy caviar recipe in there. I did not want to lose that for anything. if you tasted it you would know why. There really isn't caviar in there though. But it is really good!!

I found a tooth. I am not sure which child it belonged to and I found lots of bracelets my children made me. I even ran across one from Josephina. She was one of the girls at an orphanage I use to go down to in Mexico.I still wonder what ever happened to her and how her life turned out. She really wanted to come home with me and I wanted to adopt her. We had developed a bond over a couple of years of going down there but another couple had papers drawn up by their lawyers and she had to go with them.The following year when I went down I asked how everything went and the director said not well and that she had ran away from the couple.

Ever since then when I see a really young Mexican lady I find myself looking at her closely to see if it might be  her. She would be in her early twenties now. I think working in an orphanage would be an emotionally hard job.Seeing kids get dropped off by their parents because they can no longer support them or because they have passed away or they have been abused would be tough and then after they have been there for a while you would be really attached to them like your own flesh and blood and love them like your own and then when they had to eventually leave you would feel like a little piece of your heart got torn away.Wow! I never really thought about it like that until now. I think that is something to definitely add on my list of things to really pray about,orphanage workers!!

Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them. Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there. MATTHEW 19:13-15