April 5, 2014
Last week, the children were off school all week on holiday.  Living Hope took the opportunity to set up 3 days of immunizing the preschoolers from different day-care centers in the townships (the poorer sections).  On Tuesday, I joined the fun of entertaining the little folks while they were waiting their turns.  We had face-painting, balloon animals, and coloring.  I helped with coloring.  We had lots of coloring pages and a box of 64 crayons. I let each of them choose their crayon.   It didn't take the children long to find out that they could change colors and pick a new one from the box.  One little girl, about 3 years old, changed her color every 2 seconds and traded in her "old" crayon for a new one to use on her picture.  I had to laugh.  With big brown eyes that danced, she loved picking a new crayon from the box.  I think in the day-care environment, they probably get one crayon to use for coloring and that's it.  To have a whole box of God's colors to pick from was more than she could imagine!  And I had a blast just watching her joy!

Thank You, God, for making so many beautiful colors...and children!