Smiling Faces Next to the Ones with Dim Eyes
What can be said about someone’s past? Often times, people may seem like they are doing fine, they have three meals a day and a bed to rest their head. But here at the widow’s home, it seems like the women’s past is shown through their dim eyes. Being here less than a week I have not been able to connect deeply with the widows, but contrast to the smiling faces of the children that run around, they have dim eyes. How can people’s past be wash away that they can see the world as the children see it? When a smile brings up tons of giggles? When a playground is a full on jungle? When a classroom is a whole new country? There are some widows that haven’t been taught something that someone else would find so basic such as cooking, cleaning, and or cutting paper in a straight line. The goal at the widow’s home is to help the women gain a skill so they may have dignity and have self worth. Many of the children at the school have been here since they were small; you can see how much learning has changed their self confidence and outlook on life already. Some of the children now have a chance to go college or teach their own children three different kinds of languages. So what can be said about someone past? It shapes their outlook on life, it makes their faces become dim or bright as the sun. But through learning and being shown love, I am praying that the women of the widow’s home eyes will be as shining as the sun and have no traces of dim eyes anywhere on their faces.
1 Comments:
Jess, I love that last line! Thanks for sharing your heart...thinking of you two always!
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