Heart Speaks - From the Children

“I will never be like him, a “rugby boy!”
(an insight by a little boy, looking outside the school window staring at a man sniffing rugby.)



“ My papa will be in city jail until he grows old.
He’ll never see my art works. I miss him.”



“ In school I can play, I am very happy.”

“ My life is such a burden for days, because Nicassio is absent…”
(one little girl’s sharing about an absent classmate.)




“We will have classes tomorrow, even it is Saturday, right?”

“My mother is in the dumpsite. My father left her.”

“I need to be absent. I need to wash our clothes.”



“I didn’t come to school because I have nothing to wear.”

I wonder. How Jesus would touch these little ones? How would He talk to them? How would He look at them?

How can we be his hands? How can we be His heart?

Faith resounds as we trust in His marvelous presence in the simple words of these children. How they speak their hearts in such a simple and powerful way.

Hope inspires. It makes us all move on and believe. Yes, things will soon be better.A great fruit originates from a little seed. The simple and basic learnings would bear fruit in time.

Imagine love. Love overpowering all the longings, heartaches and broken dreams. Love consciously extended, love so unconditional.

For the past weeks, together with the children, we were learning an inspirational song, entitled, “That we may be one.” And each time we reach the part, “inspired by the love we feel,” the children embrace themselves with a tight squeeze, for some moment, the word seems to profess—truly the greatest of them all is LOVE!!!