Thoughts

I returned to Haiti for my third trip earlier this month. It was nice to feel useful there. We stayed at the same orphanage in Jacmel, and helped to build a dirt road behind the orphanage on their expanded property. It's purpose was to make a path for a truck so that a well could be installed. Eventually, this property will serve as additional room for orphans. We also passed cement to Haitian workers who were building the wall around this property. At the beginning of the week, we were asked to move rocks closer to the area where the workers were building the wall so they would have stones to install as part of the wall. A highlight for me was that I was asked to visit a church in Port-au-Prince because the church who sent us is interested in becoming partners with it. They needed to know if it was a legitimate church, so they asked me and a teammate to talk to the pastor and see the church. It was beautiful, and the pastor and associate pastor talked about their experiences durin

The eyes of one see darkness in the sky, Within the cosmos a fruitless revelry; They witness hell unchecked and miles high, Deceit as common as droplets in the sea; Their tears poured hot in vain find no reply, For all the empty pain and iniquity. Another's see the coming death of night, Inside our world an ebullient panoply; Their paths laid bare from flames that give them sight, Truth their only root that nourishes the tree; The tears that fall give passion to their fight For all that fills man's hearts with nobility.