Journey to Munich

Yesterday we only got to see Alina at the orphanage right before we flew out to Munich. Alina had a fever and they wouldn't let her leave the orphanage. The schools in the area have been closed because    on an epidemic of flu and sickness.  Lots of the kids in the orphanage were sick also.  So it was a sad day because Alina couldn't come and be with us.  We got to spend a little time with her taking pictures  and telling her we would be back soon.  It is hard to leave her there in Makeevka-snow drops is the name of the orphanage.  It is such a depressed area with wild dogs roaming the streets that actually attack people at times.  Driving away was very difficult - Alina is fine when we leave her  because she can't wait to tell her friends there what she has been given and that someone loves her.  We are the first people to ever visit her in 7 years.  So the presents and clothes she receives represents love to her that she has not had in her life.  So this process is special to her-she gets to show everyone there she is loved and wanted.  Don't we all want to know that we are loved?  That someone cares about us?  That we matter in life?  What a gift we have been given in Jesus Christ.  We are loved.  Someone cared enough about us to die for us.  We matter in this life.
And HOPE does not  disappoint us,  because God has poured out his LOVE into our hearts by the  Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.  You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for the righteous man, though for a good a someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demontrates  his own LOVE for us us in this:
While we were still sinners,  CHRIST DIED FOR US. Romans 5:5-8
We spent the night in Munich and will sight see today and fly home tonight.  More from Ukraine when I make it back for the final trip to finally bring Alina Hope Home for Good!