Haiti – “Here to love”
January 10, 2009
Recently, I have been devouring books about Haiti and the people that have given their lives to help make a difference in this suffering and impoverished country. As I learn more about the suffering, political corruption, poverty, disease, and all other things that would turn away the tourist world, I find my heart growing larger and larger for these people who I don’t yet really know living in a land not so far away from me geographically, but millions of miles away in all other senses of the word. This is a country that is truly in desperate need from the top to the bottom. To many, it would seem hopeless to think that this country could ever be repaired. I’m sure that many people who give themselves to the work often find themselves battling against discouragement and hopelessness. I’m sure it seems that it is the kind of work where you take one step forward and then feel like you fall back ten. It is the kind of work where you might never see “the light at the end of the tunnel” You feed 50 people at a feeding program that takes all your blood, sweat, and tears every day, but then walk away and see hundreds and hundreds more of starving people that you simply don’t yet have the resources to help.
