Happy Easter!!

I’m finally back home in Peiti Goave, Haiti. I’ve been staying with a Haitian family in a little town about an hour away from here. No running water and very limited electricity for almost two weeks. I don’t know how people survive without showers!! How am I supposed to get all the shampoo out of my hair with only a small bucket of water? It’s impossible!!! I like living more among the people though. My Creole always improves drastically every time I go there. Living so simply is challenging but very rewarding. I had a lot of time to sit and think about what my next move is going to be. I know I have to work with children. I never realized how much I need children in my life until I went two weeks without any. I was so bored! I realized I do enjoy teaching. I just think I would be better teaching in a one on one setting.  I’ve also been wrestling with the idea of volunteering at a hospital. I don’t know what I could do but I’m sure they could use an extra pair of hands somewhere.

Honestly, I don’t have some big extravagant vision about changing this entire country. I never have. For some reason I’ve always felt that God was sending me here for one child. I don’t expect to develop a huge mission organization that feeds millions of people around the world. Thank God for the people that do that. Maybe I’m not giving myself enough credit, but all I want is to be a stepping stone for someone else. I want to lift a child up and then stand back and watch God use them in a mighty way. I doubt there is going to be any great novels written about my life. But at the end of the day, when my kids lay their heads down at night, they’ll know that there’s some crazy white lady that loves them and would move to the other side of the world to show them that. Achieving that much is enough for me….