Anapra, Mexico April 2011

The morning sky is bright blue and cloud free. I drive up the El Paso, Texas valley to the Sisters of Charity casa in a small nook of New Mexico. After loading up the car, Sister Janet takes the helm of the dusty Subaru, Sister Carol rides shotgun, and Tracey and I have the back seat. Tracey is a new member of the team and desires to live in community and offers her service to the mission of the Sisters of Charity. She speaks fluent Spanish, is young, bright and full of enthusiasm.She is also writing the newsletter, Desert Blooms, which tells beautiful stories of the clinic activities.

There is no traffic jam at the Santa Teresa, New Mexico Port of Entry, so we whiz down the back road to Anapra, Mexico. We enter the clinic and I find it is sparkling clean with newly mopped floors, the mats and tables have clean sheets on them and I find my old friend, Isidra cleaning the window sills. She lost her 26 year son last year and has had trouble adjusting. I have sent her distant Reiki treatments from my home in Washington. She greets me, kisses me and thanks me. She takes me over to show me her new grand daughter who is 3 months old. She is doing well and is adorable, so I sit down and hold her to give her a Reiki treatment.

The children start arriving and within minutes the clinic is filled with Mothers, Grandmothers, brothers and sisters. The big bathtub with jacuzzi jets is filled and the children get cleaned and exercised in the warm water. Clean clothes are put on and Reiki treatments begin. Their little bodies soak up the energy while some are being fed. Everyone seems to know the dance and everything works like a well oiled machine. What makes this place so special is all the love that is present. From the Sisters to the Mothers, to the Children and back around again to the Sisters. Of course, the main engine in this machine is God's love, blessing and supporting all who enter.

I see new babies and new mothers. One mother, has given birth to her 3rd son who has an undiagnosed syndrome. She has previously lost 2 sons to this disease. This new baby had some additional complications at birth, so in addition to this other condition, he has cerebral palsy. All her daughters are normal. As I am treating the tiny 2 month old boy, Milagro, a lovely little girl wants to climb into my lap and watch as we treat her brother. I show her how to put her hands on him.

This little guy has some fluid building in head and may need a shunt place to drain off the cerebral spinal fluid. There is also, a question of Down Syndrome. As I place my hands on his chest he grabbed my hand and placed it on his head, which was very hot. He had the sweetest energy about him. His mother looks very young, but had a 7 year old son with her.

Also, new to the clinic is a refrigerator and a stove. This new addition has been added since the clinic now has hired 2 of the young mothers to prepare lunch for everyone. They are good cooks and lunch was yummie. I had brought along dozens of cookies for dessert and everyone gobbled them up, mucho pronto.

He is clean, treated, and fed. So now he naps while everyone else eats lunch.

Renna is progressing so well. Now able to stand against the wall to walk sideways. Her legs are weak, she feeds herself, and demonstrates how she could place a straw into a small hole on her juice box. She waves, claps her hands, gives out lots of kisses and can say about 6 words...in spanish...of course..

Someone donated their large collection of Cabbage Patch Dolls to the clinic. So these cutey-pies each got a new doll today. As they left, I had to kiss each girl and they told me the dolls' names and then they wanted me to kiss each doll. This was easy to do, as they are all so adorable; the girls and their dolls.

I enjoyed my day; it was wondeful to get to do Reiki on so many children, see new babies, note progress on others, see how the mothers are doing, and give thanks that these Sisters of Charity are able to do this unbelievable task of taking care of all these children and mothers. God Bless them all.