THE STORY OF ANNE
Last year, a child named Anne died to
due hunger and malnutrition. I will tell you the details. It was summer on a
Somalia camp. A young girl wearing rags as clothes asked her dad who is
trying his best to provide food for her daughter. He sacrificed his food for
his daughter who’s name is Anne.
Anne:
Dad, can I please have some food?
Dad:
Patience my daughter. We could eat some almost rotten food.
Anne:
Okay dad.
But the
days wear counting down for him and his daughter as the food they were eating
does not has nutrition nor hygiene. Luckily, Oxfam arrived with a doctor to
check on the refugees. They were eating the bad food when suddenly she fainted.
The dad quickly ran to the doctor to get some help.
Doctor: We need some help here people!
Nurse:
Doctor, what is wrong with her? Did she have malnutrition or food poisoning?
Doctor:
What did your daughter eat?
Dad: Not
much. Just some almost rotten food…
Doctor:
You fed her what?!
Dad: Food
is scarce in this parts man…
Doctor:
Very well. Nurse, give her some food poisoning medicine.
Nurse:
Doctor, we just ran out.
Doctor:
What?! That’s terrible!
Nurse: A
new batch will be coming next couple of days.
Dad: What
if my daughter doesn’t make it?
So they decided to take her to the nearest
facility, which is only six hours away by car. So the dad and doctor took her
in the ambulance. The dad will drive while the doctor will make sure she is
stable. They arrived and hurriedly put her in the E.R. Doctor told the dad that
they came her two minutes too late. But two minutes can be the difference
between life and death.
He kept
grieving and cannot get over his daughter. Eventually, he survived the poverty
and found a job. Every week, he visited his daughter’s grave and prayed for
her. He can’t stop thinking about her
until his friend helped him move on with his life. The words his friend use are
“This is what she would want you to do. Move on with your life.”
He moved on with his life and found a
girlfriend not long after that. They got married and had a daughter. He kept
her second daughter save and try not to make the same mistake again. He told
his second daughter, June about Anne and how hard it would be to live back then
and told June about how lucky she was not to live at that time. He kept
thinking if only she was here right now she would be a teenager and would like
to have a little sister.
Anne, looking from the Lord’s side says to
Him. “Lord, why don’t you let me sit with my sister and survive?” He said:”
Think about it. If you were still with
him, he would be busy taking care of you and will not have time for a
relationship.” Anne nodded and trusted what He said to her.
She came to June in
her dreams and talked to her.
June said to Anne: Are you my sister?
Anne: How did you…
June: Daddy told me all about you.
Anne: I didn’t make it. I know how you wanted a big sister.
Sorry.
June: It’s okay. But dad sometimes still blames himself
because he didn’t save you.
Anne: Tell him that I forgive him.
June: Okay.
June told her dad
about the encounter and thought that she is just imagining it. I guess he’ll
never know…
