Saturday, March 6, 2010 / 9:44 PM
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I was at a meeting with an old church friend who runs an orphanage in Nias, Indonesia this evening.
If anyone remembered, many years ago, a devastating earthquake hit Nias a few years ago and he appeared on The Straits Times, as the only Singaporean on the island. The orphanage, known as Tomorrow's Hope, has come a long way since.
Today, they have a plot of land with a few blocks of lodgings for the orphans or fatherless children, a workshop, vegetable farm, a chicken coop and ovens that the children use for baking.
Today, there are 46 children who are given the chance for an education and given the opportunity to lead a life hopeful that their future would be different. Different because they have food to eat, different because they have a chance to be educated, different because someone chose to give up the comfortable life in Singapore and chose to be separated from his beloved children, so that the others' children, can have hope for tomorrow.
My friend also shared about the story of a boy in the home.
The boy has a family with a mother and at least 3 siblings but he stays in the home because his mother cannot afford to feed him. In the home, he has clean clothes, proper meals and friends. But he missed his family so much, he ran away from the orphanage to try to go home which is 40km away.
When he reached home, his mother cried. Not for joy. But with sorrow because she doesn't know how she can feed him.
My dear girls, as u read this, from the comfort of your home. On your laptop or desktop, I hope u spend a moment being grateful. Thankful for all that you have. And better still, go out and thank you parents for providing for all that you have.
And thank God for placing you where u r.
And having thank God, ask Him how you can share your blessings with others.
For it's more blessed to give, than receive.
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