For Such a Time As This

Many of you have heard me talk about a sweet baby that lives in our new neighborhood. I met her when she was only a month old, and she was very ill. It was in that moment that I first felt the weight of the responsibility that God had entrusted to me. I looked into her sweet face and prayed for her as if she was my own child.

When we got back to Nicaragua, I couldn’t wait to get back to Guanacastillo to check on her! As I trotted along the path from the site of Project Samuel to the child’s home, I prayed fervently that she was still there. I rounded the corner, and there she was! She had grown so much in the two months I had been away! Through my broken Spanish, I asked her mother if she was better and the answer I received shook me to my core; she is almost completely blind. Complications since her birth had worsened during her sickness. I couldn’t do anything but try and blink back tears and hug her little body tight to mine, like I could shield her from the hardships she would have to endure in her future.

God gently turned my tears of sadness into tears of joy; he whispered to my soul, “This is why I have brought Project Samuel here, now. Nothing happens by coincidence, and I have brought you here “for such a time as this.” {Esther 4:15}