Remember Poornima

Over the past five years Word Made Flesh India has buried nine of these precious children. On Friday, June 2, 2000, Poornima was the most recent. She was with us for four and a half years. I remember the day when I went to pick her up from the Missionaries of Charity where she had been abandoned. I carried her limp body into the children’s home that would become her refuge for the remainder of her short life.

Poornima had no muscle control in her body. She was unable to sit up, let alone feed herself. She was also unable to communicate beyond the cries and moans she would breathe out in moments of need. Poornima was blind and deaf. But it was through her blind eyes that a prominent business man in Madras experienced God’s love. After meeting this sweet child he remarked, “Through the blind eyes of this child I saw God looking back at me with His love.”

Today Poornima’s crippled legs are dancing in paradise, her blind eyes are opened and drinking in the beauty of our Master, and her deaf ears can now hear His tender voice affirming His love for our dear sister.

Though she was with us only a short time, she brought joy and love into our home. Poornima will always have a special place in our WMF family.