When our group is in La Palma, the local people often want to give us gifts. They do not have much money, but they want to find a way to tell us "thank you" for coming and for helping them. In September, the night before we left, little Cristina came bringing this flower to me. She held it up and told me thank you and hugged me. She is such a sweet little girl and lives in extreme poverty but her eyes sparkle when we visit her. She had picked this flower up in the gutter outside the church building where an abundance of them had fallen. Her sweet gesture and desire to say thank you was worth more than anything she could have purchased as a gift.
Isn't she precious?
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