Local missionaries delivering aid to refugees in Turkey had never seen an elderly Muslim woman look anything but sullen, so they were curious when they saw her laugh.
Haya* had shown the Christian workers to a new camp where refugees were badly in need of food, water and other aid, and she was talking with a group of Syrians.
“For the first time we saw a grin come across her pain-hardened face,” the native ministry director said. “We were curious and asked her, ‘What happened? What did they say that has made you laugh?’ Because we had never seen her happy before.”
Haya’s pains included her husband dying in Syria, and then her fleeing to Turkey with her son, who had since gone to another city to find work, and her daughter-in-law – who one night fled without explanation – leaving Haya to care for their children.
Her laughter, the director learned, came not so much from what the other refugees said, but what she had told them.
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SOURCE: Christian Aid Mission