Heart break and Hope

Honduras is a place where many people live in constant hope.  They pray that God will provide and so are thankful when prayers are answered.  They pray as the Lord's Prayer models, give us our daily bread-for today-asking only that basic needs be met, one day at a time.  St Paul tells us we are the body of the church-to be the hands, feet, eyes and heart to carry the message of God's love and to serve our neighbors and love them as we love ourselves..  Each of us can only be one part of the body, but when there is a need we can be eyes and ears and heart to share the needs of those for whom we pray-"let not the needy be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor be taken away".Redactar
Today we heard that an 11 year old girl was taken in by the safe house for sex trafficked young girls, called She Dances.  Eleven!!!  That is 6th grade age.  I remember my daughter at 6th grade, still much more child than young woman.  It enrages me to think of an 11 year old in such circumstances.  The circumstances of the 13 year old with a year old baby by her grandfather also enrages me.  And my heart breaks to think of these specific two young girls in the clutches of such evil.  These girls need much care and love to overcome and change the lives they have lived so far.  The children of the poorest of the poor need the basic education they get at El Cordero and San Buenventura in order to better their circumstances in the future.  These girls, these children, are not statistics or abstract images of "somewhere in the world."  They are flesh and blood neighbors with broken hearts and longing eyes and souls that are desperate to know the love Jesus can give them.  What is my duty?  What is my responsibility?  What is my calling?  How can I serve them and share the love I have experienced?  Dear Lord, help me serve them as you would have me do.  Pray that we can find a way to give them reason to continue to grow, learn to love and trust, and hope.