I just had a moment. I was speaking with one of the families I get to serve and they had a little girl that kept looking at me. She saw I had my engagement ring on and she took the silver ring of her right hand middle finger and put it on her left hand ring finger. I had a pen I was clicking as I spoke to her parents and she got one, held it as I was holding mine and started clicking. When the conversation with her parents died down, I looked at her and said,"En dos semanas comiensas escuela, verdad?" (In English, "You will be starting school in two weeks, right?")
She cowers her head and whispers under her breathe, "Si". ("Yes")
Her dad tells her in Spanish,"You are going to school so that you don't have to pick up trash and clean up after people".
She looks up at me while she responds to her dad and says, "I will go to school so I can be beautiful like her."
Now I cower.
We chuckle over it, they leave and I come back to my office to write this.
I am touched. So dumb, I know, but I am. It is not about being called beautiful, but I remember being a little "squinkle", mexican kid whose family didn't have much and I would see, "los rico-chones" (or people I thought were rich) and I remember if I saw a girl I thought was rich with red shoes, I wanted red shoes. Ya, mine were probably the $4 special and looked NOTHING like that rich girl's, but to me, I felt fancy in those shoes.
I don't know...I guess I just had a moment of remembering how I saw things as a child and how I see them now. And although I may not always be right, I am grateful!
I'll be out on the lake this weekend, hopefully! Terry got the boat cleaned and ready to go...late in the season, I know, but none-the-less!
And then Sunday??? I can already hear the music....NFL!! Pre-season, yes, but football none-the-less!
I hope you all have a great weekend!
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