Boots??

We had a family come into the clinic today that live in the jungle. It was a father, daughter, and son, and they had been traveling all day to get to us. The son's one eye was swollen all the way shut, and infection was spreading into the other. The girl had been bitten by something on her foot. The sore on her foot was open and draining fluid, and the infection was up her leg almost to her knee. Both of them had what looked like warts on both of their feet. They live in the jungle and pick Coco for a living. The girl had been bitten three days ago, but due to the rain, they could not get out of the jungle. I will never forget the look on the dad's face. Here were his two children, and he could do nothing to help them. You could tell all of them were scared. The boy was given meds right away to help the spread into his good eye. We then gave him something to eat. The daughter was given meds also, but we asked her father if he could bring her back tomorrow. You see we did not have anything with us to numb her foot and some of the tissue was dead and needed to be cut out. We bandaged her foot and gave her something to eat. The thing that kept coming to us was the fact that these kids were bare foot. They walk in the jungle picking coco, but can not afford boots. Talk about perspective. We prayed with them, and then a few of us took them into town and bought them boots. We are not sure if her foot will be ok or not. $14.00 is what we spent on boots for both of them. $14.00 is all it would have taken, and this family would not have go through the pain that they are in. Please pray for this family. Pray for them physically and spiritually. The boots will protect their feet, and our prayer is that God will protect their hearts. I know mine was changed that day. be blessed