Haiti

Nathan:


Today, I have been reading about the damage of this earthquake. I have seen reports of 200,000 people killed and 10's of thousands of children orphaned and I am left speechless. It doesn't feel right that I'm able to sit in my comfortable home going on living my life as normal. I'm left wondering what the Apostle Paul or Peter or any any of the disciples would be doing right now in this case. This is very sad. Yes, I can donate money to the red cross and yes, I can pray but is that enough? I don't know.

This year my family and I have committed to 365 days of kindness looking for opportunities to help others and acting on those opportunities when given a chance. Yet, I feel helpless when a Big opportunity is right in front of my face everyday. Am I or will I do enough to help the people of Haiti? And how will my actions now, shape my kids in the future? I don't know but it really has me thinking today.

Today, I read a story about a 6 month old baby with meningitis being left at a hospital and the doctors don't know what will happen to the baby (where the baby will go) after he is better.

Today, I read a story that says they are planning on bringing in UN troops just to help prevent human trafficking, kidnapping and sexual abuse of the Haitian children.

Today, I read that somewhere in the number of 10,000 kids will be orphaned after this experience in a country that already has 380,000 kids in orphanages.

There are a lot of stories like these and it makes me appreciate the Heidi Baker's and Aaron Jackson's (Planting Peace) of the world much more. And it makes me wonder if I'm doing enough.