Last Full Day

Here I am typing my last post from Haiti.  Today has been a day filled with much emotion.  You think of an emotion and I have most likely experienced it today.  The last day of a mission trip is always this way- well at lest for most.  You pour your heart and soul into a few days and build quick but real relationships and then you leave.  I have connected with a boy here named Davidson- he is the master of the kite builders.  He has to be somewhere around 13 years old and we have just really hit it off.  Today the kids went back to school.  This is a huge step for these children because school came to a hault after the quake.  Today was yet another step towards the normal and it was great to be here to wittness it.  After school Davidson came up to me with a picture he made and it was a thing of beauty.  He colored a beautiful kite and a man flying it with my name below him.  He also had written in english "I love you".  He wanted me to take it home.  The two of us had been doing fine all week communicating but he really wanted to ask me something and I just could not figure it out.  What ever it was was important because for the first time he took me to one of the care ladies that spoke english.  He knew I was leaving today and he simply wanted to know if I would be coming back. It is moments like these that break your heart.  I would not lie to him and told him I would like to come back to see him but it would not be soon maybe even a long time.  So much of this trip has been impossible to discribe but isn't that just the way the King works?  I truly believe that this is Haiti's hour.  God is taking pain, loss, death, hunger and redemptively willing joy, gain, life and fulfillment.

May God break your heart for the widows and orphans- He has mine.  This my friends is true religion!

Please pray for our travel back home.  Besty had a great day and is doing great.  We look forward to sharing our journey with you.