Some evenings these days, Gil and Grace have been going out to take sunset pictures while I am working on dinner. Grace takes her little pink camera and takes pictures with her Daddy.
Usually they walk a little ways away from our house, to an area that overlooks a large blown-out rock quarry. The blasting is done now, so it just looks like an enormous crater. Squatters have started building mud houses down there.
On this particular day, three little girls came up to the road from the quarry and were fascinated by Grace. These little girls really represent the poorest of the poor. My heart especially breaks for the little one on the right who is holding up her skirt because it won’t stay on. When I first saw these pictures, I spent a long time gazing at them, pondering the contrasts. My little girl…the life she could have lived…the life these little girls are living.
Grace took off her shoes because the other little girls weren’t wearing shoes either.
Overlooking the quarry.
The sunset overlooking them all.
Anonymous
aww amy great pics i espically like the last one!
Babu
Your impressions are accurate. This is how your mom and I felt as we came to know the family of "Alfa" who you played with. They ate frogs from the swamp. They offered to share them with us. How humbling is that?
Rotters
wow, the pictures say it all
madison s.
i love the pictures but it breaks my heart to be sitting at a computer in a warm jacket and tight fitting pants that actually stay on my hips when i look at these kids and see how lucky i actually am. no one really realizes it untill it is gone and i am so glad you were called to teach these children about the word of God. i went to church today and sat in an air conditioned room for an hour probably learning the same things that the sixth graders over there do but i cant help but to realize how many differences there actually are.
i love what you are doing and do not lose hope. hopefully you will make an impact on these kids lives.
praying for you,
maddie