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Faces and Stories

My neighbor has a 3 by 3 tin structure by the road where she makes and sells tortillas. You can hear her slapping the dough into a perfect circle, a technique all the woman know here. I’ve “helped” with the tortilla making a few times in my home & did not have the secret touch. She works by the open flame  in the daily 80-90 degree heat, making an equivalent of $1 for every 16 sold. So when she called me over to our barbed wire fence where our land meets and gifted me a tortilla with melted cheese this morning, you can imagine how immense this act of kindness felt. Tesoros de Dios is the only center of its kind here, providing services to children with severe disabilities. All to often our kiddos are out for weeks to months due to pneumonia, another surgery, becoming too fragile to travel, etc. The physical therapists do home visits to check up on these families and I’ve had the pleasure of going with.  I love these home visits because they show me more o...