“But I noticed something else about this visit that has stayed with me. This woman, facing despair beyond what most Westerners can imagine, had asked her children to clean the front room before our arrival. Think about that for a moment. She also displayed that graduation photograph prominently on her wall.

Her efforts to tidy her home and her decision to showcase a relative's educational achievement revealed something profound: she retained some measure of dignity, some fragment of hope. It might have been all she had left, but it was something. And as long as hope exists, there remains a pathway through Christ.”

Large bags of trash containing valuable recyclable materials from the dump.