Finally.
It’s been a few weeks and I’m just finding some time to pour
my heart out.
As most of you know I went to Haiti over Spring Break this
year. We traveled to the Northwest
region of Haiti to a small town called Mole St. Nicholas (better known as “The
Mole”). This is the same place we
went last year and it was incredible.
To go back to the same place and see how things had changed was such a
treat. I’ve been processing and
mulling over the things we did and learned that week and I want to share a
little bit of that here. Instead of telling you the trip day by day I want to
explain each big thing we were a part of over there.
We did a lot that week including VBS, hut-to-hut
evangelism, construction, teen youth conference, and playing with orphans.
I’ll start with construction.
This year, we worked on a project to build a cistern in a
small fishing village called KaPaFu.
(side note: waking up at 4:45am and doing physical labor all day sounded
to me like nothing I wanted to do) This was a place that we could only access
by boat. My small group of 9, plus
our interpreter Pierre and a few other Haitians all piled onto a small
motorboat around 5am one morning and took a 45-minute ride to the village. Upon arriving it was still dark and we
got right to work moving boulders.
We worked until the sun came up and then took a break for
breakfast. The rest of the day was
filled with fellowship. The guys
in our group continued with the labor but the girls had the opportunity to hang
out with some women and children.
Boy was that a treat! We
got to watch a woman gut a fish, we were welcomed into many of their homes, we
got to pray over and speak with them, and loved on a few of the children who
were too young to be in school.
In particular, there was one precious little 2-year-old girl
who was around the entire day. I
got to hold and tickle her for a little while but the second she met Marie that
changed. She loved Marie. She wanted to be wrapped in her arms
all day! Abbey actually picked her
up first and she loved Abbey! Then
Rachel, Stephanie and I were with her for a bit before she met Marie. The second she saw her she was
hooked. The others who held her
were good, she liked us, but no one was like Marie. I couldn’t help but in that moment, see a beautiful picture
of what our relationship with Jesus should look like. Before we meet Jesus, we might know other things that are
good. I know I did. Before Jesus, I was here and I liked
what I had. I thought I had it all. But the day I met Him
my entire perspective changed. All
of the sudden what used to seem sufficient, no longer mattered. We might even go back to those things
sometimes, but when in the presence of the Lord we realize He is ALL
sufficient, ALL fulfilling, ALL satisfying, and those old things don’t even
hold a candle to Him. Once you’ve
tasted His glory and His goodness how could anything else suffice? Nothing does, nothing can.
The one day I really wasn’t looking forward to God did more
than I ever thought possible. We
went there to serve them, bless them, and to build for them, and I left feeling
served, blessed, and built up.
Funny how God works, huh?
Peace & Blessings.
Mere
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." 2 Corinthians 5:17
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