2011
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Homeward Bound
I’m in the Chicago O’Hare airport getting ready to spend another night sleeping in the terminal. Oh joy. So I didn’t kiss the ground when I got off the plane in Miami, but did step outside to bask in the aura of freedom and prosperity…
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DR Update and… Are There Benefits to Being Materially Poor?
I just snapped this picture. It is the view out the double doors in my bedroom: I think it’s technically jungle around here, but it seems to me more like “jungly forest” if there is such a thing. Oh, and I can see the ocean…
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Anxiety Related to Expectations
I’ve noticed the less I try to accomplish, the lower my anxiety becomes. However, it’s usually not enough for me to have just one goal. I often have about ten. Maybe you can’t relate to this, but I don’t usually feel good about myself unless…
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Blessed With a Burden
Megan has lived in Haiti for a year or so – she just wrote a blog piece about a child from the same orphanage I recently visited for ten days. Her passion comes out better than if I tried writing so I’m linking it here. …
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Update from the Dominican Republic
Food, Food, Wonderful Food One of the difficult things about this trip has been not eating foods I’m used to. For the first couple weeks in Haiti I ate lots of rice and beans. Then when I got to Dominican Republic, a Latin American country,…
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My Heart is Hurting
My heart aches. I have a massive lump in my throat and feel like crying. I’ve been transported from a place of incarnate misery and oppression to a place of incarnate joy and love. I remember when I was a kid we lived in this…
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Bon Bagay! A Missionary Interview
“Haiti is known as a missionary graveyard. The burnout rate here is high.” I was talking with a long-term missionary about what he found most discouraging working in Haiti over the years. He continued, “When the going gets rough, people often bail. It’s discouraging to…
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The Power of a Smile
Here in Haiti there is so much need everywhere it is overwhelming… hard to know what would truly help. Not sure if I helped much during my time at the orphanage, but at least I helped put a few smiles on their faces. I taught…
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Quick Update From a Different World
Today is my 9th day in Carrefour, Haiti. This is the first day I’ve had internet, and amazingly, on my laptop no less. I’m on wi-fi in a small internet café now. Creole music is blazing, it’s quite warm (i.e. blazing hot), and I’m sitting…
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To Inf-haiti and Beyond
I’m in the Chicago airport. Turns out they have 20 minutes of internet here for free. And more internet if you want to pay for it. On a serious note, at times recently I’ve wondered if this trip to Hispaniola was all my initiative or…