They Dug Her Grave

They dug her grave.  That’s how sick Suite Nu was when she arrived at Happiness Home.  She was so weak in body she could not turn over in the bed, but with strength of mind, she could still pray.  She told God, “If I am going to die, just let me die and not suffer.  But if I am going to live, show me some way that I can be of some good in life.”

Suite Nu contracted HIV/AIDS from her husband who died in 2008 from the disease because there was no medication available in Burma where they lived.  When Suite Nu became sick, her pastor and his wife told her about Happiness Home in Manipur, India and took her there, where she was able to obtain medical attention from a nearby hospital and clinic.  She left behind in Burma two adult sons, both healthy.

Suite Nu, age 51, refers to herself as an uneducated woman.  She does not read nor write and she only speaks one language.  She does not drive.  Don’t let her self-indictment fool you.  She was a very active member of her church in Burma and was the leader of the women’s organization there.

As she lay on the hospital bed too weak to do anything other than pray, God told her she would live.  Not only did she live, she assumed a new role in life as she became the “nanny” to the orphan children at Happiness Home.  She cooks for them, washes their clothes and cares for them when they are sick.  She comforts them and loves them as only a mother can do.  She laughed as she described her daily duty of mending the children’s clothes, “They play hard and I stitch.  They play hard again and I stitch again.”  She enjoys every minute of it because as she states, “I am glad to be used of God in His Kingdom in this way.  This is the reason I am alive.”



Suite Nu



Suite Nu feeding one of the children.