Love like an orphan

As I was going to sleep last night I was dreading waking up today. Today is Valentine's day. Not my favorite day this year to be honest. I wonder if the Grinch works more than one day of the year? Oh Well... enough about my broke heart... to the real idea

Last night as I was trying to think on other things and I thought about an orphanage I went too in Mexico a few years ago. I met this little boy, probally about six or so named Nouvea (? on spelling). He was the smallest and cuttest of the whole bunch. I remember him getting on my back and wanting me to carry him on my sholders. I also remember all the other kids. One had the chicken pox and just wanted someone to hug him. I remember the girls and the boys playing together, taking care of one another. The older one's looked after the younger ones. Out of probally about thirty kids there was only a handful of adults that came through during the day to meet the kids needs.

They ate moldy food, food that was to spoiled to sell. They wore hand me down clothes and shoes... yet in thier poverty they were exteremly happy? Why?

They were happy because all they could do was love and be loved. They didn't have anything else to hold on to in life. All the material barriers that hold us back, all the silly realtionship rules and bumps that make us stumble they did not have. All they had were each other and they loved each other.

I wish we here in our country new some hardship sometimes. Not the "extistental" crisis most of us face but real hardship I think it would make us hold tighter to the real fundemental of life and that is the love we have for one another.

So on this "Valentine's Day" a day I am not to found of this year I hope I and others will look at the realationships we have in ourlives, all of them and remove the barriers that are put in the way and like the orphans just love one another as if it was all we had to hold on too in this world.