Saturday, February 17, 2018

To Listen, To Wait

Some things I wish I could unsee.

The look of indescribable grief and pain in children's eyes after seeing their mother lifeless on a hospital bed.

Refugee children leaving chilling rafts and entering into a camp that would turn to confinement within a week.

Watching and comforting a child as she tries to process her father leaving her and her family for another life.

Inexplicable grief and pain exist. And children experience it firsthand.

Then I think about homeless children playing soccer together in a dirt patch on a warm, spring day. Or dancing with two wistful angels to Disney songs in a cabin attic.

My voice has been silent for some time: partly to listen, partly to wait.