Sunday, February 7, 2010

In the wake of it all...

So I've been back at my house for about 12 hours now...and I'm so glad to be here, yet its a little hard. Sorry I didn't get a chance to update while I was there - bad internet connection and 40+ people vying for 3 computers doesn't make for much time to reflect and type! I'm still trying to process it all...so I'm sure I will have several posts coming in the next weeks as it finally all comes to make "sense" in my head. I can't thank people enough for the prayers while I was away! We had some very high times and some pretty low times as well...but God is faithful through it all. More to come soon but I will leave you with one of my high points for the 2 wk trip. Friday (which was our last day in Haiti)the team was going to start a little later out to the clinic. The team was sitting around drinking coffee and talking when I heard singing. I looked over the verandah and saw a group of about 8 of our translators in a circle with other smaller groups scattered around them...and they were singing worship songs. For the umpteenth time on this trip I got a lump in my throat. Here are people who have truly lost EVERYTHING...home, jobs, family, friends and they were singing. Its not like one of the guys had been affected and the others were rallying around to give him support...this was 15 people who in 1 minutes time had lost it all! I had to stop and ask myself if I would be strong enough to still praise when in the worlds eyes, all is lost. Thankfully for myself and these fellow brothers in Christ, my hope isn't in things of this world, but rather Christ! I couldn't help myself and ended up sitting on the pavement next to them. I joined in singing the ones I knew in Creole and enjoyed when they humored me and sang in English! These were the moments that kept me going the last 2 weeks...

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