Prayer for the Orphaned Children

I saw them walking in the ditches, past fields of maize and sugar cane. Little kids, some as young as two or three. The odd time in groups but mostly alone. I can only hope they know where they are going…surely they are not just wandering about. 

Barely clothed, their tattered clothes are ripped and discoloured under the blazing sun. Their tiny feet have never felt the comfort of a shoe, not even a flip-flop. Jiggers under toenails and raw hunger in the belly are the norm. How can this be? Does anybody care about these precious kids? 

Some are taken in, their lives now have a chance. Orphaned kids like the ones Gilbert and Sally Kiptoo  have adopted are happy. They are loved and that makes all the difference. I enjoyed walks in the field, felt them tug at my hands, sometimes as many as five or six hanging on to my fingers. How can I ever forget these moments of pure joy. 

Say a prayer…follow up with love in action…

Prayer for Orphan Kids of Kakamega

Create in me a heart that embraces each one as precious,

Give me eyes that see beyond tattered shirts and battered feet

Let my tears fall to mix with the red soil of human indignity

So I too feel the pain of being abandoned, alone.

Make me sensitive to the sound vibrations of the orphaned

Give me ears to listen to their faint cries and silent whispers

Where there are broken chords and notes not always in sinc

Let me sing a song of freedom and hope.

May I always be moved to compassion, never complacent

Transformed by the presence of these timid ones

Let me dance with them as they reach for my fingers

For in that instant my brokenness is healed.

Under the Acacia Tree Music

02/01/14