Day Twenty-Three

I began an art project with four of the teenagers at the Girls Home yesterday. As we finished up today, this project reinforced two things: India is unpredictable and simple is best. I realized the project I envisioned was a bit too complex-- talking about metaphors and representing ourselves a something non-human (an animal, food, object, anything). How would you represent yourself?

Instead of drawing the ideas we discussed yesterday as I predicted, I realized that they simply wanted to draw. So, we put a water bottle in the middle of our circle and drew. I know this may be a stretch, but this reminded me of how Jesus enters into the lives of each one of these girls. I can be overwhelmed at times by the sheer magnitude of sex trafficking and the sex industry. But God reminded me that He unpredictably tends to each individual life in such personal ways-- so simple and beautiful.