For years now, Ryan has told me that when he is a pro athlete, he will give me a 1/4 of his paycheck. I've always played along and told him what a good boy he is, wanting to take care of his old Mom. He says he'll build me a log house on a hill and he'll make sure to come and visit as often as he can.
It's funny the plans and goals our children set for themselves. We encourage each one of them to strive for those things. Kyle, being the silly guy he is, changes his mind all the time. (of course, he is only 10!) but sometimes he wants to be an athlete, other times it's a gas station attendant. Quite a drastic change in goals!
Anyway, we have been sponsoring a little girl, through WorldVision, in Kenya for a couple months now. We have sent some pictures and letters. Haven't received anything back yet but we were told it could take months for our child to respond. Her name is Ronice. She lives with her Grandmother and a sister. Her life has been horribly affected by AIDS. We pray for her and talk about her often.
Last night, we decided to watch the DVD sent to us by WorldVision about their programs across the world and how our sponsorship helps children, families, and communities.
It was a very touching DVD. Very hopeful and positive.
As we were watching this, Ryan all of a sudden says, "Mom, would you be OK if I only give you an 1/8 of my paychecks?"
I said, "Sure, why?"
"I want to sponsor and take care of all those kids that need help."
My heart swelled with pride that he had been touched in his heart to help children that need help!
Then Kyle speaks up and says, "I want to help them too, Mom".
They started to talk about how they didn't realize that there are kids that truly do not have food to eat, or the chance to go to school, or don't even have warm beds and pillows. We've talked about it but it didn't become real to them until they saw it.
The big one was that children all over the world are sick and dying because they don't have clean water. Boy, do we take that one for granted!!!
I'm glad we sat down and watched the DVD. Instantly the kids began drawing pictures, and making paper airplanes to send to Ronice. They also looked up some Swahili words on the computer to write her a letter that won't need translation when it gets to her.
Man, I love these kids!!
Check out http://www.worldvision.org/
There are so many kids that need our love and prayers all over the world and even right here in the USA!
That is beautiful, everytime one of the commercials comes on for something like that my kids are all begging to sponsor a child. Only $10.00 a month they'll say. i should make the sacrifice to make it happen. Or maybe after Christmas or for christmas. The kids could help collect pop cans for it. The other day my son yelled at his grandma.....STOP! along the road, he jumped out saying I need to pick those up for my mom cause she's having money problems. It's so cute. They already have about $15 saved for Christmas. ~myn
ReplyDeleteWhat kind and wonderful children God has given you. What a wonderul gift.
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