Decade

Ten years...what can happen in ten years...well if you go to my first blog on this site, over 400 posts ago...so many posts ago my beautiful and talented daughter made a book of them and gave them to me for posterity's sake! It's hard to believe I sit here tonight on the threshold of another chapter in our journey to aid and minister among the Haitian people. I suffer with a nice case of laryngitis, fortunately I don't need my voice to get a blog together, I cannot harness Siri tonight, an incredible technology that has arrived in the last ten years. There are some similarities between this trip and our first one all those years ago, I go to set up a tent just like I did ten years ago. The tent sits in customs tonight as it did ten years ago. But something has changed across all these years of work in Haiti. Me, I've changed. We have been pushed through knot holes, twisted up by circumstances, thwarted often, and yet today the bright light of love and compassion have seen thousands of lives impacted by faith, hope, and love. Tonight as I contemplate, which I most likely will a few times through this trip, I am staggered at what we have been allowed to, blessed to be a part of. As bone weary as we often are, and frustrated by circumstance, we are not discouraged, we are not dismayed. As much as we have been able to carve into this beautiful people a new legacy of hope for a new generation, they have carved into my heart a fresh courage for whatever I face in the driven culture in which I live. And so it is we go tomorrow, to see with fresh eyes the culmination of all the efforts and gifts of grace and mercy we have received across this decade to help and sustain so many lives, the hearts of orphans, of school children, of the destitute, the thirsty, the hungry, the down trodden. Our anxious hearts bed restlessly, as we ready to go, pray for our success, for our way to prosper, for love and light to be shed on many. Blessings to all and goodnight!