When Love Heals by Samuel Smith

Author:Samuel Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HigherLife Publishing
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

John 13:35

GOD DIDN’T ORPHAN JIMMY

The concept of abandoning your child at an orphanage is difficult for most Americans to understand. I don’t understand it, but I see it all the time in the countries I visit.

The term “economic orphans” applies to many of the orphans in these institutions, meaning their parents decide they can no longer afford to care for them. Perhaps they have too many children, so they keep some and give up others so they don’t all starve to death.

Sometimes there is no work and the parents decide to leave the country, hoping to find a job and perhaps reunite with their children later.

In Jimmy’s case, he was abandoned at a Catholic orphanage in Peru because he was badly hurt in a fall. His medical situation must have seemed too overwhelming; he couldn’t be left alone for one moment.

The kind priest who runs the home tells Jimmy’s story:

When I look at Jimmy, my heart breaks.

Although his head is covered in thick black hair, you can still see the jagged scars running across his scalp. His head must have shattered like a cracked egg. Like Humpty Dumpty in the childhood story, the doctors were unable to put Jimmy back together the way he was before. His body is twisted and his eyes are glazed over from medication for his brain damage.

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YEARS MMI HAS BEEN MINISTERING TO THE POOR

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