Easter Letter to OUR Compassion DAUGHTER

Easter Letter to Our Compassion Daughter
​Kay Adkins, Write the Vision, kayscopy.com

Finally.  It’s been too long since my child received one of me.  I know she wonders about her Compassion Sponsor.  I know that she wonders why other Compassion children have heard from their sponsors, but she hasn’t heard from hers in a long time. 

So I’m really excited for today, because today her sponsor and I will bring her Good News. Her sponsor has been thinking about this letter for a while—she always seems to write the same things.  Maybe she’ll share a different verse, or talk about the weather or her pets, or her grandchildren. But usually she feels like what she writes is the same every time.  Not this time!

Today, even though our Compassion daughter won’t get the letter for a while, we’re going to tell her what Easter means to us. 

We’re going to tell her about how her sponsor was before Jesus came into her life.

She is writing on me now about how she was only eight-years-old when her own big sister shared the good news about how we can become a part of God’s forever family.  She says she was about the age of her Compassion child when she invited Jesus to be her Lord and Savior.  She hadn’t done any “really BAD things,”  but she was still a sinner like everyone is (because everyone has done things that God has told us not to do---like telling a lie, or disobeying a parent).

When she understood that she had not always pleased God, and that Jesus had taken her punishment for her by dying on the cross, she decided to ask Him to forgive her, and be the boss of her life.  And He did, he gave her a new life and a promise that nothing will ever separate her from the love of God.

Oh, my. A tear just fell on me. The sponsor just remembered that this news is the best news anyone could ever send or receive.  If her big sister had not told her about Jesus, she wonders what her life might be like now.  She can’t imagine not having Jesus in her life, and she wants her Compassion daughter to know Jesus too.

She is signing her name now.  It reads, “Dearest Compassion Daughter, May you and your family know and love Jesus too!  John 3:16, Your Devoted Sponsor.”
She is putting me in the envelope now with some pictures of herself as a little girl—so I will have some travel companions!

We’ll spend a little time in the dark mailbox, then many hours in trucks, on planes and across the ocean.
First we will go to the translator.  Can you imagine being a translator of letters to Compassion children?  I don’t know who they are or what they believe.  But over and over again, they read about God, his love, his promises.  It must be a wonderful job!

I can’t wait until I get opened.  I’ll get to see the smile on my Compassion child’s face, and the excitement in her eyes when she gets a letter like the other children at her center.  When she sees the picture of her sponsor as a child, she will know that someone who lives far away, but who once was a lot like her, loves her and prays for her.

Then, she will run home and show me and the pictures to her mother and father and other family members.  Many times they read me too.  So I’ll get to tell even MORE people about how to know Jesus and be in His forever family! 
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Our Compassion child keeps all of us in a bundle under her bed—so I’ll get to see my letter family soon, and we’ll all be read and cherished by our child for a long, long, time!

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