Today is Shelley’s birthday (Moses’ daughter) she is turning 8 and I have made some pink cup cakes to take to the celebrations later when everyone has finished work. I have enjoyed doing this with the Golden Harvest family. I am sure that they have never had a cake baked for them never mind given a card and sung happy birthday too. I found a sweet book for her and wrapped it up with a bow – I hope she likes it.
We are back from the party and my heart is touched! We went to Moses’ house – a one roomed abode that he has set up very well and we all had something to sit on. We told Shelly we just wanted to celebrate her and then had Moses pray for her. It was such a beautiful father prayer and made me smile so much. After singing four verses of ‘Happy Birthday’ (did you know that there are that many – “Happy birthday” followed by “how old are you now” followed by “I am…years old now” and finally “We wish you many more”!) Siphiso, Moses’ wife stood up to share something. She read from her daily devotional from the church she goes to and it was all about not comparing ourselves to others but seeing ourselves as the Lord does. And she shared about how every year Shelley asks her mom if they will celebrate her birthday that year and have a cake and every year she has said no, no cake this year, so she was so touched that we were doing this for Shelley finally. She told us that for 3 years she tried to have a baby and finally along came Shelley so she is a real blessing and Siphiso was so happy to be able to celebrate her life. I was so glad that there was only candle light as I had tears streaming down my cheeks! I was so touched by the whole thing. I guess it got to me more knowing the feeling that Siphiso had in those years of trying to have a baby. No matter what our walk in life is or where on the food chain society puts us, we still are all humans and still go through the same hurts and hardships. I was humbled tonight!
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