Mother Teresa’s home

What we saw shocked us more than everything what we saw in India. The house was a hall, where in few lines were arranged children’s beds. I prepared my camera to shot a photo, but one of the staff women told me that it is not allowed. I went by the first line and in the first bed I saw a child, lying on his back and shaking in a terrible epileptic collapse, wriggling his face and twisting the whole his body. I looked around to see someone of the serving staff to help this child, but I couldn’t see anyone. Then I laid my hands on him and began to pray and push out the demon of epilepsies. When it’s wriggling stopped a little and he became quieter, I went on further. On the next bed was lying another child on his back and a bad stinking was coming from him. When I stared more carefully in him, I noticed that his diapers for long time haven’t been changed. The child himself was feeling very uncomfortable and others around too. I again looked around to see someone from the serving staff to help the child, but again didn’t see anyone. Seems the children were too many, and the staff too small and they couldn’t succeed to help everyone on time. I went further and saw on a bed a child who was standing with his back towards me, holding the bed’s handrail with two hands. I stopped and stared in him wondering why he was moving so slowly, trying to stand face to face with me. The little child very slowly, groping about the bed’s handrail, passed a turn and stood with his face in front of me. When I saw him, I was really shocked from what I saw. He hasn’t any eyes, but only a little concave skin. His nostrils were turned up, his mouth was twisted strongly to one side, and his head was very big and quadratic. I stayed aghast. Unable to see me, this child raises his hands straight to me, like he wanted to tell me: “Take me from the bed and hug me”. When I stared in his clothes, I saw they were disgusting dirty, and I am very squeamish person and thought: “If I take him, I will make my clothes dirty”, so I started to go, but another thought stopped me: “When the clothes get dirty, they can be washed. Take this child and show him love”. I stretched my hands, raised the child and hugged him. When he felt my body touching his body, he strongly wrapped my neck with his hands. I began talking softly to him in Bulgarian and English: “Hey, my handsome friend, everything will be ok. My name is Pavel, and your name?” Of course, he couldn’t understand anything from what I spoke to him, but just could feel other human being’s presence. When the time to go came and I wanted to leave the child again back to the bed, he didn’t want to leave me. Maybe he thought: ”Who knows how long time will pass until someone else take me, hug me and show me love”.

After this dramatic meeting, which left an imprint in my consciousness forever, my heart to the world’s need wasn’t same anymore. Two days later we left India, but I promised to myself that with God’s help later we will be back again to go on serve Him there.

Dear reader, the blind child in Mother Theresa’s house symbolized the whole nation of India. There are about 40 million blind people in the world. Over 10 million of them are in India, which make it the country with most blind men in the World - literal meaning. In the book of Leviticus 26:15-16 God has said a curse for blindness over everyone who ignore Him and begin to worship and serve other gods: “... and if you reject My ordinance, and if your soul disgust My law, to not do all My commandments, and violate My covenant, then here is what I will do to you: I will send horror over you, consumption and fever, which will ruin your eyes and melt your soul; and you will sow your seed for nothing, because your enemy will eat it.” India is the most cursed country in the world and it can be clearly seen from the number of the millions, who live in misery, poverty, in physical and spiritual darkness. That’s why God showed me this little child to see clearly how in one human being is incarnated the tragedy and the need of a whole nation. Literally, the Indians who have never heard about Jesus are hundreds of millions. Can we just stay indifferent in the future for their fate? I am more than sure - no. As Bulgarian Christians, God has given us both the material needs for supporting the missionaries, and also He has given us the Christians who will go. The only thing that makes real Christians is: first - our love to God, and second - our love to our neighbors. These two commandments are gathered in one by Jesus in His Great Commission. A moment before He depart, He commanded His disciples: “Go to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). “Whole world” really means that we must go to every tribe and every ethnic group, existing in this world, and to proclaim the Great Name of Jesus. I am ready better to die, than stay complacent and to be like those “Laodicean” Christians, who are not interesting of nothing else but their own selfishness. They always pray: “O, Lord, come to take Your Church!”, but in reality they don’t do anything to show with their deeds, that they really love God and all those, who have never heard about Him. It is time to stop complaining that we haven’t money for missionary work and ready people for that. The truth is, we actually haven’t faith in Lord of Powers, Who can multiply even the little that we have, but give it from our heart, and use it for His glory. It is time to fall on our knees, to beg Him and to cry for these nations. It is time for the Bulgarian Church to take participation actively in sending missionaries there too!

For Lord Jesus!

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