MORNING THOUGHT for Friday November 21st
Good morning. I enjoy looking through photos from my aid trips with
Mustard Seed Jersey and remembering the significance or the memory attached to
those photos.
The photo I have chosen to share with you today is of a painfully thin
young women with a radiant smile looking at her birthday cake – her last
birthday cake for she has since died.
Flori was a skinny gypsy
orphan with a big personality. When Mustard Seed got involved with her she was
homeless having lost her job through illness and needing kidney dialysis 3
times a week to survive, with frequent complications causing prolonged stays in
hospital. Sadly for her a kidney transplant never happened and she knew without
that, her life expectancy was short. Gradually we saw her become weaker. Sometimes
when I visited with her in Romania, she talked about life after death and how
she expected she would die soon.
Flori had a very strong
Christian faith and frequently said that when she was sick and afraid of the
pain she was experiencing, she would dream about Jesus and He would tell her
not to worry, reminding her of the people who loved her and who prayed for her.
And then she said she would feel better.
I saw her about 4 months before she died; I spoke to her on the phone 4
days before she died last month. For her death was not the end, it was a new
stage in her journey with God.
God bless and have a good day.