Today was quite unlike any other day I have spent in my life. Those of us on the tour got to meet our sponsored children today and nothing could have prepared us for the emotional high it proved to be.
We had been advised that the children might be shy and reluctant to bond with us, but this did not happen; we had been told the children might want to do their own thing with the the other children and that we should expect to be left following them around, but this did not happen. Instead, there was an instant bond, a bond that was somehow different than anything we had experienced before. And then I realised, the bond had already been established through our letters and today was simply the physical meeting of hearts that had already connected. It can only be through the love of Jesus in our respective hearts and the anointing of the Holy Spirit that this bond was already established.
Compassion, through magnificant organisation and the choreography of bringing our sponsored children from all over Peru, had arranged a wonderful venue for us all to meet.
I met Nicole, one week before her eighth birthday. She saw me on the bus as we arrived and ran to meet me as I stepped off the bus, throwing her arms around me and reinforcing something in my heart that I had previously read in her letters. What a day! It seemed to fly too fast.
It would be unfair to the other members of the tour for me to focus on myself alone. I know the others will take the opportunity to tell their own experiences and blog when they get the chance. However, I think I speak for us all when I say that the day was an unforgettable experience and a day that will live in our memories for ever.
Saying goodbye was tough; but really, was it goodbye? No, we were simply establishing the next stage of our united hearts, a unity that would be completed in eternity.
Alastair.
We had been advised that the children might be shy and reluctant to bond with us, but this did not happen; we had been told the children might want to do their own thing with the the other children and that we should expect to be left following them around, but this did not happen. Instead, there was an instant bond, a bond that was somehow different than anything we had experienced before. And then I realised, the bond had already been established through our letters and today was simply the physical meeting of hearts that had already connected. It can only be through the love of Jesus in our respective hearts and the anointing of the Holy Spirit that this bond was already established.
Compassion, through magnificant organisation and the choreography of bringing our sponsored children from all over Peru, had arranged a wonderful venue for us all to meet.
I met Nicole, one week before her eighth birthday. She saw me on the bus as we arrived and ran to meet me as I stepped off the bus, throwing her arms around me and reinforcing something in my heart that I had previously read in her letters. What a day! It seemed to fly too fast.
It would be unfair to the other members of the tour for me to focus on myself alone. I know the others will take the opportunity to tell their own experiences and blog when they get the chance. However, I think I speak for us all when I say that the day was an unforgettable experience and a day that will live in our memories for ever.
Saying goodbye was tough; but really, was it goodbye? No, we were simply establishing the next stage of our united hearts, a unity that would be completed in eternity.
Alastair.
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