Monday, September 15, 2008

Look up and see...




Change is in the air. As University Village is hustling and bustling everyday, roofs are built, walls torn, fences built, new faces working, land is being cleared and a whole lot of noise; saws, drills, hammering, digging, rolling, etc. Other staff members are continuing the work in the communities, engaging in the hopelessness, fighting for the orphans. There you hear laughter, crying, the chopping of vegetables, the boiling of water, loud rap music (they love blasting their stereos), swings, children dancing in the dirt, digging, the opening of a Coca Cola can…(Coke is everywhere).

Change has a lot of different noises. As I pondered these things, one sunny Saturday afternoon, I simply looked up and saw it, change. It is like the wind. You don’t know where it comes from and you don’t know where it’s going, but you know it’s there. You can feel it, you can see it, and if you stick out your tongue as a child does to taste the falling snow, you can almost taste it. It takes a heart of a
child to notice change; in the midst of all the noise, to look up and see...


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