Irma (not her real name) had finished seeing Dr. Juan and his team and was sent into the trailer with tears in her eyes. A nurse had meet with her in the Health Mobile and listened as she expressed her anxiety over being separated from her children still back in Mexico and other issues. I asked her why she was crying, but she could not express it. Through our translator Maria, I presented her a Bible and some cookies. She began to break a small smile. I told her it was a gift to bring her some happiness. Now she smiled. We opened to the Psalms and I had Maria read it to her. I told her that God’s Word is sweeter than that treat I just presented to her. When she tastes the cookies the Word of God is sweeter than that! She understood. We told her that it is more precious than gold. We read Psalm 19:10 together:

More to be desired are they than gold
Even much fine gold
Sweeter also than honey
And drippings of the honeycomb

I asked Maria to read her James 2:5. She listened quietly wiping her eyes. 

…has not God chosen those who are poor in the world.
To be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom

We explained to Irma that when God makes promises He will move heaven and earth to fulfill what He has said He would do! I told her that God is like a good and kind father who loves His daughter and would never leave her or forsake her.

I told her that even when she may feel that He has left her or her family or when she cannot feel Him close, she can rely on His promise never to abandon us! This seemed to impact her. I told her that prayer is like speaking to her Father in heaven. Speak to him! Ask for forgiveness and pardon. Ask him to come close. She prayed quietly sobbing. I offered her to receive the promise of John 14:23: 

If anyone loves me, he will keep my word
And my Father will love him, and
We will come to him and make our home with him.

I asked her if she understood what Jesus did for her on the Cross.  She was not clear with that so I explained to her the simple Gospel: Jesus takes our sin and gives us His rightness. Jesus lived a life perfectly in love; He was perfectly innocent and stepped into our place to deliberately bear our punishment and we, the guilty, go free. I asked Irma if she would turn from her sins and place her trust in the Son of God for forgiveness. I asked her pointedly if Jesus was more than just an idea or figure or a statue to her or was he her true treasure and her Redeemer. She said He was. Born again to a new life!