GOD WILL MAKE A WAY FOR ALL THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD

In my last blog posting I shared our experience with the little butterfly that shared our dorm with us for a few days, as she could or did not want to fly away, because, externally, you could not see any reason for her not to.

This way, she was so similar to so many abused and abandoned children, beautiful on the outside, but bleeding and needing tenderness and protection inside.

Unfortunately, the little butterfly could not live long. Having to travel from Guatemala to El Salvador for my second granddaughter 17 birthday celebration, I was recommended to leave her among the flowers in my son Victor´s home, where, supposedly, she would be warm and safe.

That night temperature dropped to 12 centigrade’s and she died, possibly not because of the cold weather but from the lack of the home warmth she had enjoyed for a few days.

Similarly, I am firmly convinced, children, more than material and external comfort, what they really need most is home warmth, feeling accepted and loved, feeling they have the right to a second chance in life, all available material comfort included, because, I feel, children do not need to feel as an orphan, nor treated as one, nor being subject to any adult´s decision detrimental to their right to receive all and everything that can be given to them. There is, never, such thing as too much!

This conviction has led me to think that, even if the little butterfly died from cold she, from that moment on started to feel the warmness that only her Creator, not anyone of us, can give her, and similarly, every child will feel that warmth without having to die first.

God will make a way for every child, where and when it could seem impossible to find a way because of our insufficient understanding of the privilege and blessing of being able to love, protect, care and take care of, and give the best and most abundant to all the children He places in our paths.

Because they deserve it! They are the apples of the eyes of God! Consequently, they should be the apples of our eyes, too! Mathews 18: 6, 10

GOD WILL MAKE A WAY FOR ALL THE LITTLE BUTTERFLIES (CHILDREN) OF THIS WORLD

We have been presently spending some time with one of my sons in Guatemala. My wife and I have had ample time to go on our own and walk the streets and visit the places of the beautiful country that has been our home for more than 27 years, and where we will probably stay until the Lord calls us to rest besides Him.

In here it is not wise to freely go around taking pictures of people but we have found many children whose faces make us remember the children we left behind in Nicaragua.

But something very special has been happening since a few days ago. While my wife was laundering some of my shirts when she took down one of them from the drying rope she found on it a small butterfly that since that day has not flown away.

She has stayed in our dormitory quiet and cozy moving only from one little place to another, being the latest one a white Christmas polar bear teddy.

She is not one of the most beautiful butterflies on first sight, but when you keep on seeing her you begin to see in its brownish color beautiful details. This made me remember our spiritually adopted kids and made us meditate how wonderful is to be able to extend our love, care and protection to the little ones as my son Victor so tenderly says when he talks about his children.

All this has made me want to share with you my inner and deepest conviction that those children, our own flesh and blood and the ones who have come to you are the beautiful butterfly blessings that the Lord sends your way, and that He will make a way for every one of them.

It is for you to enjoy these blessings to the hilt by really loving them, not just giving them some material things or some temporary protection or some material dwelling for them to live in. What is most important is for them to be convinced that they dwell in your hearts and that you really love them as if they were your own.

Just a few moments ago while my wife was having her daily bible meditation, the little butterfly flew from the bear to her bible pages and then to her fingers.

What is the message from the Lord? She asked to the butterfly. I answered on its behalf... A message of communion in shared love! A message of gratefulness and trust on us by all the little butterflies that have beautified our home throughout our life! A reaffirming message that God will find a way for all the little butterflies of this world!

Our granddaughters are asking her. Grandma? Why is that little butterfly in our home? Is she sick? And grandma answers… My dear ladies… she needs our love! And they solemnly decided: we will love her!

IDENTITY AND AUTHENTICITY

This has been an unending dilemma through the times and especially now with all the cyclical crisis of all sorts, shapes, contents and whatever that are rocking and sinking all the boats of the human endeavors, ambitions, egotisms, extemisms, fakiness, ruthlesness and discrimination.

In relation to name callings and justifications you can make your choice. what it is never or rarely mentioned are the concepts of values, moral, social, spiritual, you name it, that are in a worse state of bancruptcy than the financial ones, associated with the rampant consumism and distortions of the understanding of life as it should be.

I hope you enjoy the following videos and the included thoughts and comments