{"id":918,"date":"2015-10-09T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waterforishmael.org\/?p=918"},"modified":"2015-10-09T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:17:37","slug":"stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.waterforishmael.org\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"One Stranger’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThank you.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s probably the one sentence we hear most often these days at Water For Ishmael.<\/p>\n

Rafi\u2019s two teenage boys had been coming home from school every day with that \u201cdeer in headlights\u201d look.\u00a0 Since they arrived in the US in June, they had managed to learn the English alphabet and graduated to reading and writing simple sentences at WFI\u2019s American School Evening.\"ASE<\/a><\/p>\n

During the day, they were struggling to follow along in regular high school classes.<\/p>\n

A one hour meeting with the school counselor made all the difference for Rafi.\u00a0 We were able to swap things like Health and Economics for Phys Ed, giving the boys a little more time to catch up on their English.\u00a0 We also were able to explain the TPS uniform policy and get the boys\u2019 sizes so we could ask around for gently used uniforms for them.<\/p>\n

And they are the blessed ones . . .<\/p>\n

A photo of the body of a two-year-old Syrian boy who had washed up on the Turkish beach was released.\u00a0 Our new friends struggled with survivor\u2019s guilt:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did my son live when some one else\u2019s was taken?\u201d<\/p>\n

All I know is that God watched over their lives and brought them here so we could show them His love.<\/p>\n

It reminded me of 1 Peter 2:<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.\u00a0<\/i>Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers,\u00a0they may see your good deeds and glorify God on\u00a0the day of visitation.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

We have been redeemed and welcomed among God\u2019s children because of God\u2019s mercy.<\/p>\n

God now calls us to honor Him with our lives by welcoming strangers who have suffered at the hands of evildoers.<\/b><\/p>\n

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