Life is something we like to embrace based on achievements and milestones. Were you loved as child? Are you married? Did you play sports in high school? How were you grades in school? Where did you go to college? What church do you go to? Where are you employed? The list can go on and on. The first thing I noticed leaving the Port Au Prince airport was that life was more about survival for the Haitian people than anything else. In fact things such as food, clean water, a place to sleep, are never guaranteed. This leads to opportunistic tendencies and rightfully so. I'm not interested in painting the entire picture from a sociological perspective though. I'm searching and grasping for something that takes a higher seat in survival hierarchy. How does one abide by basic civilized rules when he or she is desperate to provide for their family? Perhaps, I need another Ethics class but there is something painfully natural about the thought of doing anything for our family. I saw that today. I saw it on the faces of the people who were searching and begging for whatever they could garner for the ones they loved. I was nothing more than another naive American oblivious to the harsh reality of poverty in this world. This was observation and now I must prepare myself to worship with them....beside them....I'm not sure I ever imagined just how close I would get to what it means to completely depend on God.
- Christian
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