Last night, my kids laughed at me. They were derisive, really. “Don’t tell me Mom wants to go to Haiti,” they cackled. “Get real.” I was stunned. I mean, I know they’re teens and their natural state is cynical, but really? Do they not know that I would drop what I’m doing in an instant […]
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Category Archives: HaitiI’ve been invited by the lead pastor of an Atlanta church to join their team in Haiti at the end of February. I will be going. Yes, I will pray with my family and weigh what this means. But God has placed an urgency in my heart to be there and so I will go. […] I feel overwhelmed and I’m not even there, yet. Thanks to Twitter and the Internet, I can digest #Haiti news 24/7 and, because of my fierce interest and concern, that’s exactly what I’m doing. My daughter says I’m obsessed. Maybe she’s right. I just can’t seem to distance myself from the Haitians’ reality – even […]  My daughter is an amazing and talented person. Last night, she opened up to me and shared that she has been resistant to my plans to go to Haiti, because she is afraid for me. It’s true, there are risks. She understands, because she is heading to Swasiland in Africa this July. At only 17, […]  It seems it should be tougher than this: 1. God put a desire in my heart to go to Haiti. 2. I prayed that He would guide me, if my wishes reflected His, and then I expressed my desire publicly. 3. Within two days, I received an invitation to go from someone I’d never met. […] I lost my Blackberry last night. It was new. As in just-bought-it-on-Friday-because-of-the-trip-to-Haiti new. I wanted something with a better camera and video, so I could share with you. I wanted life’s best, even when I had some clue I would be trekking through life’s worst.And it was wonderful. And I lost it. And it was […] 
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