April 2010 prayer note-- Haiti
Dear friends, Thanks for praying for my visit last week to Haiti. I’ve been trying to figure out for a few days how to put this visit into words but in many ways I know I can’t do it justice. Haiti experienced a truly tragic and devastating earthquake 3 months ago. Many buildings are now heaps of rubble or uninhabitable, thousands upon thousands now live in tent cities or under tarps on the street, and it seems everyone lost family or friends in the quake. Power is still out and running water is sporadic. The world community responded quickly and yet in looking around at all the damage it’s easy to wonder if Haiti will ever be fixed, since the problems run so deep and much of that attention and immediate help has already gone away. And yet, despite this tragedy and hardship, God is clearly present in Haiti. Some friends of mine often use the expression that “Grace is like water, it flows downhill and pools in the lowest places” and perhaps nowhere is t