Yet another
The sad stories just keep coming.
Saturday night I met a widow with 6 young children. Her husband had died the day before. She looked blank, forlorn, with puffy eyes from weeping. Around her lay 3 of her beautiful children, trying to sleep. Once in a while one girl would scratch her lice-infested head.
About 100 people were gathered at the wake at the Buddhist temple in the Uthai Thani province. It is a very poor community; this family has a small one-room house on a tiny plot. The visitors were quite busy drinking and playing cards. I was told there would be no collection to help this poor woman, neither now or in the future.
Thinking about our already overspent budget both with The Well and personally, I kept remembering Isaiah 58:10 --"if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry...."
There was no question. I gave her about $90 through Ouey, a student of ours who is her relative. Ouey explained it was because of Jesus. She cried some more and thanked me. We will continue to help her.
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