One Week

One week!! This time next week I will be somewhere between Illinois and Florida. The fact that it is already almost here is unreal to me. I remember just a few short months ago I had given up hope on the fact that I would be back in Haiti any time soon. Then He proved me wrong and now in one week and one day I'll be standing is a stuffy TINY airport with just outside the walls stands poverty in anywhere between 80-100 degrees of heat! A blog I read from a lady whom I met in Haiti last time said it like this "your summer is our inferno." I hate being hot, I hate sweating (especially in skirts), I hate sleeping when I'm hot. But the truth is, I'll sweat everyday for 21 days if it means saying yes to the Lord sending me to the place that holds so much beauty, hurt, pain, white smiles, and love and that place is Haiti! 

This time last year to me Haiti was just a place that had been devastated by an earthquake two years ago. Now, it holds my friends, children I love, amazing people who give up EVERYTHING for others, and my heart. So why, why Haiti. Here is why...the first time you ever step off of a plane onto the soil of a hurting place your heart forever belongs to that place. And to me that place is Haiti. I am not going to change the country in just 21 days, but I am going there to help make the lives of a family who have lived there for 12 years a little but easier. I am going to take some of the weight off of their shoulders to the best of my ability. They are there to change the lives of the people in Haiti, and I am going to help for the short amount of time I'll be there. I'll be doing things that here in America seem so menial and silly, but to the lives of 60 children living in one of the poorest counties in the world, it will mean more than you and I will ever know! I'm bringing water balloons, graduation decorations, Popsicles and much more! Such small and cheap things, that cannot be bought in Haiti, and if they can they are more than anyone can afford to spend.

I am really nervous to travel alone. I am mostly nervous about finding my way through an airport alone, but I won't be alone really. I am really nervous about being away from Matt and the rest of my family for three weeks. I'll be fine though, I know it! 

Please keep praying!!

Until next time...Matthew 21:21