Day 67-71

I just finished a book that is a true story on abandoned children and their emotion struggles. It was hard reading about a sweet, innocent child that keeps getting moved around from orphanages, to foster homes and back to orphanages, making and losing friends and being afraid to love again. The hardest part was reading about how children are treated in orphanages...like prison, they become a number, they line up before their meals and if they do not follow the "rules" then they get hit. In this book, Jennings, the child, lives in 4 different orphanages and in each one, he gets hit and tortured by mean and bitter nuns. It makes me wonder why some people choose to work at orphanages if they hate children so much.

One quote that really touched me when Jennings was asking his friend, Sal, why he should love people, when he just keeps losing them. And Sal said:

The more it hurts, the more you know how special they were to you. If you never liked someone because you were afraid they'd go away, then you'd never know the joy of their friendship. You would always be alone.

So my lesson, keep loving. Even if it hurts to lose someone, be thankful of your time together. And if you love someone, tell them before its too late.

I highly recommend this book - it has changed me.

Also, below are some pictures of the Mayan Ceremony we attended last Monday.