We met a centurion today that looked like someone out of a time magazine photo, a hundred and three years in Haiti is a long time. She was beautiful!
Healing Haiti has built homes and sponsored several old and handicapped people in the city where the orphanage is almost completed, we visited some of them today. But the highlight of today was the kids at Yvonne's orphanage singing to us. I must say these Haitian kids cannot only sing but are amazingly well behaved. When we got there they sang to us, and had the nicest things to say to Jeff about Alyn, we all were in tears. But the most amazing thing to me is to watch 30 kids sit without fighting or fidgeting at dinnertime and sing solos and duets for over an hour. I'm shocked that these kids who have nothing will not touch or take the supplies we've brought until they are given to them. They played a long, sweaty game of keep away from the adults. And since we were on a roll with the paint thing we introduced these kids to finger paint, which was something you could tell they had never done. It was a good day!
My word of the day was baptism, I'll explain. A big theme in Isaiah is the importance of the lamb and the blood required to pay our debt; which is signified in baptism. In haite at the end of the day you and your clothes are grimy, filthy, sweaty, germy; in a word you're disgusting. You don't want to sit, or anything else until you've showered (with bleach Becky)and changed. God feels that way about this infected planet and the way it has corrupted us, we soooo need his cleansing to come into His presence. Thank you lord for rescuing us from this tent city of hopelessness, can't wait to be home with the saints of every tribe, color and age!
-Mare
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