Love until it Hurts

Conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna are out of surgery following their successful separation. Surgeons at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital spent more than 27 hours separating the Bangladeshi girls, aged two years and 11 months who were joined at the head.

 Krishna                                                                      Trishna

The orphan twins were brought to Australia by the Children's First Foundation and Guardian Moira Kelly says caring for the twins has had a huge personal impact on her life.

"I am not their nurse. I am not Children First. I really have become their mother and they have become sisters to my sons Ahmed and Emmanuel," she said in a statement.

She said she now understands how Mother Theresa lived by the saying "love until it hurts."

Living in an age full of quick divorces and superficial internet relationships it is not often that we ‘love until it hurts’ but this story surely is a challenge to us to consider how we love those around us.

Jesus of course is the ultimate example of sacrificial love and he enables us to know true freedom in life just as Krishna and Trishna will hopefully be able to be freed by this operation to live a full life.

Yours in Christ
Peter