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No Longer a Slumdog<br />

out at night. I keep thinking this is all a dream, that<br />

one day I will wake up in that room again, but so far<br />

that has <strong>no</strong>t happened.<br />

I found out that the people at the Bridge of Hope<br />

center were praying for me. They had been for two<br />

years.<br />

I do <strong>no</strong>t k<strong>no</strong>w, but maybe that is why the man<br />

forgot to lock the door.<br />

How happy the angels in heaven must have been to see<br />

Nadish free and behold his joy in the face of the Father!<br />

Throughout Matthew and the other Gospels, we see how<br />

Jesus repeatedly highlights how important children are to Him.<br />

His heart is very close to them. He wants us to k<strong>no</strong>w that “when<br />

you embrace My children, you embrace Me. To touch them is to<br />

touch Me.”<br />

A Heart Like His<br />

If you are a parent, you understand this sentiment. Who<br />

doesn’t take it extremely personally when someone treats their<br />

child with special kindness On the flip side, what parent<br />

wouldn’t experience an explosive fury to learn that their child<br />

had been abused<br />

Close your eyes and just imagine it was your child who was<br />

gagged and bound and whose eyes were blinded by boiling oil.<br />

Picture your daughter trapped in a cage with lines of men out-<br />

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