Possibilities of Reconciliation?
If the young woman has truly changed and wants to raise her child in a loving home, clothe and feed her, keep her as safe as she possibly can, then perhaps the child is where she needs to be. If the young woman, through some experience or miracle in her life has learned what mothers go through for their children maybe then she can understand what her mother had been through over the past six years and allow the grandmother and grandchild to see each other on a regular basis. If the young woman has truly changed.
I hope that the grandmother's determination and willingness to survive will grow in the heart of the grandchild, and she will grow strong. There is the possibility that this girl will not be used and abused by her birth mother. It is also possible that the birth mother will not rent this child out to the men in the area to get money to pay the bills or get other things that she wants. I hope that the grandchild doesn't die during, or because of one of these transactions.
I don't know what the outcome of this story will be. What I do believe is that it is in God's hands, and he will be helping the granddaughter when she can no longer help herself. I believe that God must have been with the grandmother during her long journey to find her grandchild. I believe this because of things that happened and didn't happen during this ordeal. Although this journey happened during typhoon season, the grandmother did not encounter extreme weather. She was able to find enough food to keep up her strength. It is true that she was raped. What good could possibly come from being raped. The rapists did not kill her, thus ending her search for her granddaughter. She some how found the strength to accept the small penance offered for the theft of her dignity and not allow herself to bring harm to those who had harmed her. Strength like that had to come from God.
This part of the grandmother's story has past now. The love she has for her granddaughter will neither pass nor diminish, but grow stronger. Perhaps the strength of that love will bring the two together again before one or both die.