In retrospect, I see how God used the “Lady Under the Bridge” to take me to a place where I never planned to go. I discovered a hidden society in which people like her, worked, lived, socialized and played. “Tins and Trash” were their way of life.
It was an unforgiving place where a putrid stench of raw garbage from 6 million people mixed with an already heavily laden diesel smoked air. The dump served as home and workplace to a people who, exhibited signs of leprosy. It was a place where God showed up to a people that others had forgotten or ignored.
To describe the scene of these dear people huddled together, listening intently to stories of Jesus is difficult to describe. Here, were a people found. A new life was theirs. A life that would bring them hope and a love that was unconditional. Only God could offer such. The people that received were changed and remain changed to this day.
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