mariusdeetlefs - Swazi Feet

Swazi Feet

We have been quiet on the blog lately, but it is not because we have not done anything. On the contrary... I have been helping two Americans build de...

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We have been quiet on the blog lately, but it is not because we have not done anything. On the contrary...

I have been helping two Americans build deck flooring for a church and community center in Nsoko, Swaziland. Nsoko is one of the most impoverished parts of the country and also a place where hope is springing forth in the form of a medical clinic, a community center, and an "orphan village". It is also where the mercury hovered at 103°F and shade was a joke. I felt good that some of the decks were soaked in my sweat...

The most REWARDING Swaziland experience happened last week while we hosted a Vision Trip for Children's Hope Chest. It was a rewarding and quite significant experience. I was part of handing out shoes. This was not a cold, disconnected, "Here's your shoes, go with God" day. I washed and dried their feet, applied band-aids, and made sure their new shoes fit. Then I prayed the blessing of God on each of their little lives.

It would have been so easy to sit on the sidelines - to take pictures or sort the shoes- but it was a whole other experience to get my "hands wet". I washed the feet of little kids that felt like the feet of adults - scarred, hardened, callused little feet that have walked many, many miles ...

I left the U.S. thinking I was coming to Swaziland to help the orphans... the truth is that the orphans are helping me realize that hunger, hurt, poverty, tears and loneliness are not spectator sports.

Marius