Beautiful::Africa

Once again we have celebrated another significant event on the Christian calendar. Easter, as opposed to other commercial holidays, is celebrated with chocolate bunnies and pastel eggs. The more treats the better! Big and small chicks and eggs distract us from the actual story of Easter. Easter is about the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior.

However, not everyone is captured by all this hype. Some people are in a place where there seems to be no hope or future. Others are in a desperate situation where there is no solution. Many give up, ignore the problem and walk away!

This Easter, one mother in desperation gave up and placed her newborn baby girl in a black trash bag and left her at a shopping mall to be found. Thankfully she was found soon after being abandoned and taken to the hospital. When she was a week old she came to Beautiful Gate where there is hope and a future for her.

Why does a mother abandon an innocent child? We ask this question till we are blue in the face without an answer. Yet it is not our place to ask, judge or criticize. It is impossible to know what the mother’s circumstances were. All we can do is pray for her. Please join us in prayer for this new addition to our Beautiful Gate family and the mother she will never know.

~Sue Haakonsen