Child of AIDS Stricken Parents Finds HOPE

She's so young... only in 4th Grade.  Yet Pramodini's actions and character seem mature, others-centered beyond her years. When her sisters are outside playing, Pramodini is inside scrubbing floors, helping wash clothes or tending to someone who's sick. Why? Because her matron has told her to? No. She would rather work!

Her life's beginning included tragic, cruel ingredients. Both her parents had died by the time she was four. Before that end, she had watched them both suffer in terrible agony: AIDS ravaged their bodies. At this tender age, she had already had to face pain she couldn't begin to describe, let alone grasp. What happened to her mommy and daddy? Who can comprehend death at age four?

Praise to God: Pramodini was brought to Mukti mission. At first, she was fearful and kept to herself. Although caring arms reached out for her, she remained unresponsive. She closed her heart to the Lord Jesus and often refused to listen to Bible stories and messages.  Wonderfully, however, just a few months ago she attended a retreat and gave her heart to Christ. Her matron mother, (Skyflower family) is thrilled at Pramodini's transformation: stubbornness increasingly changing to obedience, spiritual hardness warming to spiritual receptiveness. She now listens intently to the Word. Not a sharp student, with below average reading skills, Pramodini asks one of her sisters to read the Bible to her and help her understand. She wants to understand and please her Lord. She loves praise songs and is developing an interest in worship dancing. 

Sensitive to other's needs, Pramodini delights in serving, another indication of Jesus' molding. Eagerly studying the Bible, Pramodini believes Jesus is coming soon and wants to prepare for His return -- an amazing insight and goal for one so young!  May she continue to focus heavenward and the radiant bride He desires her to be when He returns for her.