Today I had a meeting at church and I could
not go home early with Pieter and the kids.
When I got home, Pieter told me that they had
just had an adventure. In my mind, I thought “ok!?”. Then Pieter continued his
story.
He said “Darius locked himself in the
kitchen for 20 minutes.” I immediately rushed to check on him, he was watching
a church movie, and his face was covered with marks of tears. I looked at him,
he was smiling, then I gave him a kiss and a hug. Because I was paying so much attention
on Darius , I did not notice Amira next to me describing what had happened. She
was talking and I didn’t even notice her until she said “ I Climbed out the window
into the kitchen to open the door for Darius”
“What did you just say?” I asked Amira. She
repeated herself.
Oh my! My princess Amira saved the Gorilla!!
(BTW, we have titles for all our kids; Amira (Princess), Corban (Monkey),
Darius (Gorilla), Benicia (Mermaid). Each has these names according to their
personalities and demeanor.
Pieter told me, he had went into the kitchen
to switch the oven on and went to check a recipe for the correct temperature,
when Darius shut the door and locked it. It is one of the push locks. Darius doesn’t
know how to turn knobs yet, so he couldn’t open the door from the inside. Because
the landlord never gave us a key for the door, Pieter could not open it. Amira
gave the suggestion to pray. After praying they spent many minutes trying to
pick the lock and using credit cards to open up the door but the door would not
open. Pieter looked out a side window adjacent to the kitchen window and saw
that the kitchen window was open and could be gotten into if the window could
be reached, the only problem was that the office window that Pieter was looking
out of had bars on it. But opposite our office window was the neighbors
balcony. It had bars as well, but they were more gapped. So they headed to the
neighbors and asked if they could use their balcony. Because the gap in the
bars were so small only Amira could make it through. Pieter helped her through
the gap hanging our 6 stories and guided her through the kitchen window where
Darius sat crying.
Well Amira was so brave. She just helped ,
with no fear.
How wonderful she is. Amira knows when we
have trouble, we should always think about God and pray. I love my daughter. She
is so wonderful.
