Morning thought 5
Friday 24th May 2019
On Monday I told you of Nadia who
is now making a new life for herself outside Romania. Over the years Mustard
Seed Jersey has helped a number of young people brought up in the notorious
state orphanages in Romania. One of the other young women who was with Nadia in
a state orphanage is Mariana. She too left the state orphanage at 18.
She needed help to get her ID
paperwork in order to learn how to survive outside an institution. She had to
learn needed life skills and to find and then keep employment.
Whenever I saw Mariana and the
other young women in the apartments they would proudly show me the various
items they’d received from our aid consignments. Like all the girls at first Mariana
was terrified of men. It took years for her to trust and relax with any of the
Mustard Seed male volunteers.
Mariana now lives in Oradea in an
apartment with several other young women who like her grew up in an orphanage.
She is employed by a charitable trust and works at the hospital for sick
children assisting the staff in caring for and playing with the children.
Sometimes she works on the ward where the abandoned small children are. She
especially likes it there and says she aims to give the abandoned kids as much
love and time as possible.
A sad smile crossed her face. “I
know how much these little ones need love and attention. I am so blessed by the
love and care I have received from the charity since I left the orphanage. I
want to give back. I feel God has given me this opportunity to give love to
children whose birth parents have abandoned them. God loves me and I know he
loves each of them. I can be God’s hands and give them love”