Hope for a weary world….

Three years ago this month, this child from my parents homeland stole my heart.

Her family lived in the nipa huts of my family’s ancestry

Homes made of woven palm leaves and bamboo poles suspended above the ground

These homes are meant to protect from flooding when the rains come.

These huts could not survive the three typhoons that slammed into the Philippine islands last month. Three typhoons. The virus. Lives devastated.