So its
Saturday morning …our day off and we get to sleep in, yet I’m
wide a wake at 6:30am. I can hear kids yelling, playing, screaming,
basketballs bouncing, roosters crowing, and something that sounds
like a tin garbage can scraping against some concrete.
Yeap
its our day off and there’s no such thing as sleeping in……..Good
morning All God’s Children Orphanage!!!…Though I wouldn’t wanna
be anywhere else in the world right now but here!
I
opened my journal and today’s quote is….
Only
as you embrace and appreciate the culture can you share in a
culturally relevant way. Jesus identified with us, and we must do
the same where we serve.
So to
be honest I thought when I first came on this race that my life was
gonna be turned upside down that I would be in huge culture shock and
a emotional reck.. But, that’s not the case I’m seriously numb to
all of this. It’s a life for many and I’m living it with
them…I’m adjusting to a new culture and embracing every
opportunity I have.
Thursday
I had a chance to go out with the medical team…as I was running the
pharmacy I got really sick and felt like I had heat exhaustion…so I
went outside to get some air. As I’m sitting on the ledge of the
door about to pass out I’m swarmed with about 10 Haitian kids and 5
adults starring at me. I thought to myself..if they would only back
up and give me space, why are they starring at me?…this is rude
back in the states to swarm ppl and stare at you. Everything started
to become a blur to me so I put my head down and poured water over my
neck and started to pray for God to take away my sickness. After a
few minutes I started to feel better but still not able to get
up…Ronnie a translator approached me and asked me if I was okay, I
started asking him what all these people were doing starring at me.
He said they are in awe, they like your hair, they think your neat,
they are intrigued by you, they like your makeup….. I’m like
okokokok I get it! So I started to speak what I knew to these
kids….”bonjour” I said…they started to laugh! One guy near
by knew a little English and started to translate for me…I asked
them if they knew Jesus…they said yes! Then I started to teach
these lil Haitian children the song we teach our orphans “One
little…two little…three little Haitians”. They loved its..I
began to teach them the numbers and basic hello and goodbye! All
they wanted was to be noticed, to be loved on. 
And
that’s how we are with Jesus…many times we sit and have a pity
party with God…we pout about what’s going on and all he wants us
to do is to speak to him…to be noticed…to love on him. And in
return he teaches us a lesson……be patient and hear the voice of
God he’s waiting on us.
I ended
up noticing a little girl around the age of 7 that was standing
there…her leg was swarming with nats, she had two open wombs and
puss was coming out..I went and got the stuff to bandage it up. You
shoulda seen the look on her face..you woulda thought I just gave her
a million bucks. My heart was smiling as I thought to myself I’m
being the hands and feet of Jesus right now even through my weakness.
God
bandages our hearts broken hearts when we need him to
As the
truck loaded up later on that day all the kids started coming up to
me and hugging me bye…One kid that stood out in my mind was a kid
named Ruben..he would barely talk to me at first but in the end he
was soo excited to tell me bye. I gave him one of my cards with my
picture on it and told him Jesus loves him. My heart breaks for the
ones I touch and just knowing that they are also so precious to
Jesus. As the bus drove off I could see Ruben waving…but just knowing that goodbyes aren’t forever with Jesus….i’m gonna be okay!
