We Continue to Wait

March 12, 2011 we arrived in Bon Repo, Quest, Haiti. A year has passed; a year! Those three months we were there were a brief span of time that are forever etched on my heart. And we wait on the Lord's timing to return. I know He has His perfect time but my heart wants to be there now!

So much can happen in a year. Roger had another kidney stone after we came home in June. Then he hurt his knee in December. He has just recovered from the surgery from that injury. And the children of Haiti grow up. We are missing their growing. A friend we met there last year who just came back from a recent trip and I saw this picture on her FB page. I recognized him. Job! Roger hugged him every Sunday at church while we were there. Even though it is a head shot I can tell he has gotten tall!

And I wonder about Blanc, the young boy with CP who loved wrestleing with Roger and always came to me to bandage his elbows and knees after a fall. I miss kreyole lessons with Pastor Oslen and Bishop Abraham's son Davidson. I miss Ezechiel's smile and the light in Madame Mono's eyes when she is cleaning. I miss Madame Abraham's cooking and listening to the Ladies Choir practicing in the school on Saturday mornings. I miss the presence of the Lord that is so evident during prayer at the church. I don't know the words they are praying yet but there is no mistaking the reality of God that is there. I miss home!

I am sure it doesn't make sense to many that three months would have such an impact. I am not sure I understand it myself. There is still so much about Haiti and Haitian culture (christian and nonchristian) we still have to learn. Still it is home.

Lord, I know there is a reason. I really want to understand it. But I know the reality is I may never know why we have to wait. Help me to trust Your reason and help me to be ready when it is time to go.