Opposition

Luis just started at the Milk Project about a month or so ago.  He is quite small for his age, 11, and is special because he needs crutches to get around.  When I was playing soccer last month with the kids, he was right in there playing as well.  Nothing seems to slow him down, and although I don't know him personally well yet, every time I see him he is smiling.  

His aunt takes care of him.  We are not sure on his full history, but apparently his mother was/is special physically as well.  That is his aunt there in the picture with him.

Please pray for Luis, he had another surgery today on his legs, and is recuperating in the hospital.  Maria was able to help his aunt with some diapers for this time in the hospital that the doctors said he will need for a time.

It would be fair to say that Luis as well as many of the children in the Milk Project face lives with many an adversity, a word that has it origins in Latin for "opposition."

There are things in this world that are opposed to our success, to our well being, to our very existence.  

Our lives are often defined by how we handle opposition.  It is certainly what is most observed by those around us.

Our lives are also defined by how we respond not only to the opposition we face, but how we react to the opposition in the lives of those around us.  

Pray for Luis's recovery from surgery.  Pray for the children of the Milk Project for God's strength and encouragement to face and overcome the opposition in their lives.  Pray for the mission how we can come alongside them to help them in that goal.  And pray for all of us, including you, as individuals to help these kids, and help other people in our lives, wherever we happen to be, to climb the hills of adversity in their lives in Christ Jesus.     
​  

​

---