Faces

by David Ritchie
Published August 2, 2005

Two weeks have passed but I can still recall them in my minds eye. Those little faces form the children's camp. There were mischievous faces, those kids who could almost do anything and get away with it. Then there were the frightened faces, for some it was their first time away from parents, and after all they were really young children.

The bold faces were sometimes hard to handle, and the timid faces alerted the discerning helper that a little care was needed here. The ones who stood out most were the sad faces. Not that they were always sad, just that every now and again that old sad look crept over a face that was too young for such sadness.

Some of the faces bore the resemblance to a parent, so that the pedigree was there to be seen. The little boys faces lighting up with the positive feedback and compliments that accompanies such occasions. Those little girls, who were already way ahead of their years, and flirting with the boys.

There were freckled faces, and frowning faces, smiling faces, scowling faces, and for a few moments there was even angry faces as something did not work out right. On the way home on the bus there were many tired faces, and before arriving home there were even sleeping faces. As they united with their parents there was many happy faces.

Behind each face there is a story, some happy some sad. In the week we all spent together we had begun to know them as a person, not someone who just comes to the club. One of the pictures I recall best is the little faces peering from their sleeping bags, each telling a story about their own experience of Jesus in their lives.

Behind each face is a soul for whom Christ died, a life to be lived, a soul to be won. Not just a sea of faces, each one an individual face in a multitude of lives. Each one to stand face to face with the Lord Jesus Christ as saviour or judge.

As we minister to these little lives that we remember through their faces, when our work is done may it be said of us, "We shall behold your face in righteousness, we shall be satisfied when we awake in your likeness."

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