Today, we stepped out of our comfort zones and went to serve at a hospital for mentally and physically handicapped kids. A lot of these kids were abandoned by their parents because of their deformities, or because they just couldn't take care of them. As we were stepping into the hospital, the group fell silent as they were just taking in what we were about to do. We were getting ready to love on some people who would be considered, 'the least of these.' They are the sick, the abandoned, the rejected. We were completely unaware of how our hearts would be changed.
We walked into a room full of cribs, wheel chairs and nurses. And then we saw them, the kids. And naturally, we all fell in love. Everyone met a kid, and took them outside to play with them (They all had to be in wheel chairs and many of them couldn't talk-so we communicated as best we could). When I walked into the room, I noticed a wheel chair with a child in it turned facing the opposite direction of everyone else and knew that was the one I was going to take. This little girl was unresponsive, but I kept talking with her and singing. FINALLY, as I was uncurling her fingers-I got somewhat of a response! She picked up her head and grabbed my fingers and smiled. So we kept singing and smiling and then started the giggling. It was awesome. I was so amazed at what just a little love could do!
It was hard leaving the kids at the hospital, but it was such an amazing, life changing time for all of us.
