Identity Crisis

Nu Lali is in the midst of one huge identity crisis at age 52.  In less than one year’s time, she has suffered the loss of her husband who died of AIDS, the loss of their 16 year ministry as missionaries in Burma, separation from her country and her family, all while fighting her own health battle with HIV/AIDS.

Nu Lali and her husband were missionaries in Burma converting Buddhists to Christianity when they contracted HIV/AIDS through improper needle injections while ministering to the health needs of the people.  Her husband became sick first but refused to come to India to receive medication.  He felt God had given him the disease and that it was God’s will for him to die.

When Nu Lali first became sick, she knew she had TB and Typhoid.  She went to the hospital in Burma where they confirmed her self-diagnosis.  When the doctors tested her blood, they discovered she was HIV+.  When they informed her, she felt like her life was over.  She did not want to live.  The feeling did not last long because soon afterwards she came to India seeking medication.  She was receiving medical treatment at a local hospital in India when someone told her about Happiness Home.  She travels frequently between Burma and India.  She has been at Happiness Home for two months on her recent stay.

She does not feel homesick at Happiness Home. She likes it and thinks of it as an extended family.  Speaking of family, she has one son and two daughters in Burma.  Another daughter lives in the United States.  Nu Lali has at least two grandchildren, both boys.

Nu Lali views it a good thing to rely on God no matter the circumstances.  She says, “If I die, it is for His glory.  If I live, it is for His glory.”  In losing her own identity, Nu Lali has become identified with Jesus Christ.

"Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ." Philippians 3: 8

Nu Lali



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