A Village Discharge

Discharging one of our little “charges” back to the village is one of the most hopeful and heartbreaking parts of our mission. Most of our babies, like most Malawians, will eventually (literally) have a hard row (of maize) to hoe.

A VILLAGE DISCHARGE

How to walk among wild places?

TAKE

only pictures

LEAVE

only footprints.

How to walk among the poor?

TAKING

(even pictures)

seems questionable.

LEAVING

(only footprints)

seems miserly.

YET WE TAKE

gratitude and hospitality,

(perhaps even a chicken or a bag of ground nuts or a bowl of nsima)

and pictures, of course.

WE LEAVE

a small bundle of hope

and

another mouth to feed. 
                                                    
                                              Paul Heller 

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8 & 9.