Unexpected Answers

You know what? God has quite the sense of humor.
Before coming, I kept telling everyone I was going to be bringing a kid home with me.... well, now I am bringing twenty!

It reminds me of something Mary Jo, one of the American volunteers, said on the way to the airport on Thursday. She said, out of the blue, "God is so faithful, He always answers prayer." When we asked her what she meant by this, she said "For years, I prayed I would be the one to take one of these children home. Now I get to, but on a larger scale, and not the way I expected."
That really stuck with me.

Before I came to Haiti, I asked God for an experience. I asked Him to stretch me and to break me and to use me. He has done all those things. And in all of those things, not the way I expected.
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I did not come expecting an earthquake and to go home in two weeks. I came fully intending to hang out with my eight kids a day for two and a half months. But God shook the ground and along with it my expectations, and in so many ways I witnessed God working as I never would have before.

God answered my prayer. My heart is torn, I have fallen in love with Haiti, the people and the land and the children, but He put me here for such a time as this, and now He is calling me home. I know for sure that I will not be saying a final goodbye to this breathtaking country.

"You're calling me to lay aside the worries of my day
To quiet down my busy mind and find a hiding place
Worthy, Worthy

I open up my heart and let my spirit worship Yours
I open up my mouth and let a song of praise come forth
Worthy, You are worthy

Of a child-like faith
And of my honest praise
And of my unashamed love
Of a holy life
And of my sacrifice
Of my unashamed love"