live bodly – love courageously
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." -Mother Teresa The sturdy Pajero bounces along the pot-hole ridden street, passing the bustling markets and onlooking zebras on our way from Eldoret to Kijabe. Five hours of driving leads us to Bethany Crippled Children's Hospital. A sanctuary of kindness. A living testimony… Continue reading The Secret of Joy (Janet Part IV)
An army started rising to fight for Janet, and we were on the frontlines. We had two ambitions: 1) Enroll Janet in school and 2) Pursue medical treatment for her leg deformities with the dream of standing and walking. June 28, 2002 I picked up the phone in the small Eldoret office, and my fingers… Continue reading Janet Part III: Facing the Determination of Dreams
“Never give up, for this is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe April 4, 2002 Janet sat at our feet because she'd never stood. We waited outside the physiotherapy clinic of Moi Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya for over two hours in hopes of seeing a visiting… Continue reading Janet Part II: We’re Not Giving Up…EVER
I leave our round hut with bandaids, neosporin, a Swahili phrase book, and a bottle of water tucked into my pink backpack. My plan is to visit mamas, practice my broken Swahili and clean children's wounds. But, as it is for most days in Kenya, schedules are thrown out and the important rises to the… Continue reading Janet Part I: Something Has To Be Done
Anika Ortiz 