Im ruined on the streets!

I’m ruined!  Comfort, convenience and luxury seem so irrelevant right now.  When you see how the majority of people live here on this side of the world, things that were so important just aren’t anymore.  Watching the ladies push just to get a pair of shoes for their filthy, cut up, tired feet and then dance when they got them on brought tremendous joy!  They didn’t even care if they were tight and we had bigger sizes.  I think they were afraid to take them off that they might not get another pair! 

The first women I encountered had a baby attached to her back and I began to pray for her and she passed out on top of the baby.  Another homeless lady helped me get her unattached from her mom as they moved the mother to the side of the room.  The terror in the sweet girls eyes was heart wrenching. She did allow comfort but continued to look around for her mommy. I went to pray for another older lady because she had a stroke and HIV positive and wanted healing, but as I prayed I heard “pray for me to heal her broken heart”.  As I began to pray, she laid her head on my shoulder and just bawled.  Right then I knew that was so much more than physical healing for her. Then there was the little boy named Anthony that wanted his stomach to be prayed for and I got to lead him to Jesus. Soon as he prayed believing for salvation, his stomach was healed and his salvation secured!  Come on!!!

What I saw yesterday cannot be put in words.  The desperateness and hopelessness in the eyes of these precious people will grab my heart forever.  I’m afraid of living comfortable, complacent and ignorant in any form.  I want to change the world for someone. That starts just by loving one! Whatever that sacrifice and risk looks like I’m willing!