Reality

The gogo who attends Hawane CLC and has 16 children at her homestead came to Hawane Farm Monday to ask the nurse here if she would accompany her and her daughter, the mother of the sick 8-month old boy, to the Mbabane Hospital to pick up the child. The family of the baby's father had taken the child to the hospital to be treated for some soars that had developed on the baby's body since we had last seen the child. Upon arriving at the hospital the doctors did not take the gogo, the baby's young mother, and the nurse directly to the child. So they waited. They expected to just pick up the child, allow the nurse from Hawane to assess his condition, and return to their homestead if taking the child to receive medical attention was not needed. Then, they received the horrifying news that their precious baby boy died around 10:15 a.m. that morning- Monday November 10, 2008.

A heart the world was blessed to have in it stopped beating that day. One of the youngest members of Hawane CLC gone from this earth. He was a sweet child with big brown eyes and soft dark hair. He lived among a family of believers in Christ. "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28)

This little boy was the nephew of a child here on the farm, a child who shares the same gogo. So Monday afternoon we gathered together- the child here, her house mother at Hawane, her gogo, and her sister- the mother of the deceased baby, and I to share the heart-breaking news with her. Tears flowed, prayers were offered, and God's Spirit comforted. He alone is worthy of our praise- in the good and in the bad. " 'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than you ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.' " (Isaiah 55:8-9)

A Posting by Kylee