Some of the people He sends to us are like mummified beings. All wrapped up in pain, self-pity, remorse and with a high level of defences. And being met by ‘too’ much compassion and pity can make the layers of covers just increase. At that point it takes a balancing act between confrontation in love and waiting and letting the environment and time mature the larvae until it is ready to break through its cover and show the true colors, that hidden beauty.
Sometimes I just stop in the middle of watering the garden or doing the accounts or something else and just start to thank God (and shed a few tears of gratefulness) as I think about some of the people He has sent our way.
For some time ago I said to one of our staff: Don’t worry about the coverings and all the defences. God knows what is inside and what she needs. Let the environment of love and acceptance do its work and in His time it will breakthrough. She is taking good decisions and she is on her way ‘through’ just give her time.
So we wait. Then suddenly we see something happen. Actions are changing. She starts to show compassion and mercy and we find a softness and a sensitivity to others. We start to see an originality of beauty breaking out like a beautiful butterfly and we just stand by saying: ‘’You never knew that it could be such beauty behind all those layers.
Today she is looking for the least, those shunned by others, she’s searching them out.
- An old grandma said when she came with a plate of jackfruit. ‘’Oh I sat here so lonely, everyone has gone and they left me behind with nothing to eat the whole day. Why do you do this? I am not a Christian I am a Buddhist?!’’
- To those who would say, we have nothing left, we have to fast because there is nothing, and no-one has ever given us anything, no-one has ever had an interest in us. In that family of garbage pickers 2 girls at high risk, one of them is pregnant and a mother is struggling to feed them when the husband is in his fit of gambling and drinking and drugs. No-one can read or write. The kids are not in school.
- When our transformed worker came there with a couple of food bags amazing JOY was breaking out.
This is one of several ‘forgotten’ ones who are receiving love in action by our new metamorphosis transformed larvae to butterfly. Anna
