A Lesson in Humility

Nick explained about Operation Compassion in a previous blog. They touched us deeply. Sometimes in life you meet people that change how you handle seeing people in ..how can I say ..in less than humanitarian conditions. We visited the cave dwellings of the Indigenous Indians twice. The first time we went with the Americans. Jose, himself a Mexican living in the states since the sixties, brought with him candy and stuffed toys to give to the children . He asked me to share what he had to give which in itself was selfless . All the children were so grateful for what they were given and then the last little boy came running up to Jose and he gave him a toy Mickey Mouse ....it was ironic ... what it was did not matter ... if you could have seen the joy on his face .. he was about Hannah´s age our 3 year old grand daughter, you would have cried as I did as he went running to show his family. We travel with pens and small koalas to give to children as mementoes normally, next time a lot more thought will go into where we will be going and what we can do to help. We are so very fortunate to be born where we are in this wonderful world of ours, travelling has shown us that many times over.