24 July 2009

You leave my girl alone!

Today was a sweet day for me and Jackson. Jackson is our base directors son who has autism. I work with him about 5-6 days a week. We do a lot of cooking and hanging out. I've found myself learning so much about who he is as an individual. He has really enveloped himself in my heart forever. He's my little sweetums! Today was one of the sweetest days we've had together. Let me tell you about it-
We were lounging in the living room at the YWAM base. I let him have some veg-out time where he likes to bury himself in the sofa. I get lots of giggles from him when I let him do this. I was letting him have this time this afternoon, but instead of burying himself he just laid his head on my chest. I felt his spirit so calm and relaxed. At one point I moved to another couch to talk to a friend, Michael. We were looking at pictures on his camera and laughing. Jacks did not like this one bit. He began to groan as he sat up on the couch. He nodded towards me and Michael all the while still groaning. I went over to him to have him show me what he wanted. He just stared Michael up and down. Michael then left the room and Jacks starred at him the whole way. He then stood up, took my hand and led me to the kitchen. It was like he was telling Michael, "You leave my girl alone!"
In the kitchen I had some country music playing on the radio. I held both of Jacksy's hands and began to sway like we were dancing. He smiled BIG! I then showed him how to move his feet, but he wasn't having none of that. But... a few moments later as we were cutting water melon, he grabbed my two hands, began to sway and rock his feet. Jacks and I danced today for the first time! It was dear to me. That kid will always, no matter how bad of a day we have, he will always have my heart!
The master chef cutting up water melon!

13 July 2009

Oh a pull at the heart strings!

So I looked through all my pictures from India the other day. There was a lot of laughing at silly pics of us dancing and trying new things, cringing at the pics of us drentched in sweat, and tears of just missing the faces and ministries we worked with. I miss it so much. If there had been any hesitation to move back it is all gone. I just can't wait to get there and start life in this amazing country. I do want to share with you something quite hilarious. While in Hyderabad we found a lot of fun things to do. One of these things was riding a mechanical bull. I look at these pictures and just keel over in laughter. So for your veiwing pleasure and the possible embarassment of my friends and I, I present to you....
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