Saved

"I knew you before you were born, I formed you in the womb.” Jer 1:3

Due to the late arrival – we left for the baby orphanage at 10:30 in the morning . We were not sure what to expect as far as the facility and we were told it was 45 minutes further up the mountain, and the day before, another team member had a difficult time making it up the hillside due to the mud. The director described his work saving the babies from infanticide. The process is difficult as well as dangerous, involving many people willing to risk their lives to save these baby girls from murder at the hands of midwives under the direction of paying superstitious parents.

At the end of a one-lane hillside road, we stopped. Stairs and makeshift bridges covering streams of mountain water would lead us to the “saved” in their hilltop sanctuary. The building was a two-story structure with multiple rooms and a kitchen. In the first room were the oldest little girls, six precious ones sitting up amidst rag dolls and stuffed animals, astounded by the incoming guests. Several began crying, looking to their caregiver for comfort.

The others moved on to tour the facility while I took a seat and blew up Happy Face balloons to distract them. After a short time they began to enjoy the brightly colored new additions to the array of play things. I rose, to look for the others and came to a room with six tiny babies lying on a bed. Their caregivers standing over them were making sure they were wrapped up, warm and happy. The oldest one was the most animated, and when our driver came in and started talking and making faces, she just smiled and giggled readily.

The innocents, were literally snatched form death and the evil intent the enemy had for them. Here they lay, looked after, a future, a hope given to them by the obedience of a family and workers dedicated to seeing the plans to “prosper and not to harm” the Father has for these precious ones.

“Nursing infants gurgle choruses about You, toddlers shout the songs that drown out enemy talk.” Ps 8:3