Haiti Lesson #29....There is Always a Reason to Celebrate

Also that everyone should eat and drink and take 

pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man. Ecclesiastes 3:13

Our flight to leave Port de Paix was moved up one day. We were sad to leave the kids and Sonlight early but I think most of us were also missing family and ready to head home. We flew out on Friday and stayed over night in Port au Prince on Saturday night. We stayed at Mon Chez Moi Guest House. It is a complex that is like a hostel.....a large house with several rooms filled with bunk beds and a community dining room. Meals were served family style for dinner and breakfast on Saturday morning. They also served the darkest thickest coffee I have ever tasted. The complex was surrounded by a high wall topped with razor wire. I do not know exactly what type of danger was outside of those walls that required razor wire. I do know the that inside the walls was a great pool for us to relax and enjoy!! We had a very relaxing afternoon just hanging out with each other, recapping our experiences from the week and celebrating our week. 

On Friday evening, we gathered in Gene and Rob's room for our final time of devotions together for the trip. Our conversation that evening surrounded the subject of how we would spread the word. We talked about how we would prepare to talk to people about our experience. How we would share what we saw and how we would glorify the Lord during those conversations. I hope that I have honored God through these lessons I have learned. I hope that they will continue the conversation as people read them and that everyone will understand that as I have written these lessons, I have felt God telling me what I should be sharing. I have started some of these with my thoughts in mind and by the time I end....God has taken over. As people have asked me "How was Haiti?" since I returned, some are interested in the suffering and hardship and others are genuinely interested in the people, the mission and how God used us. I love the opportunity to share the things I saw, felt, learned and experienced....especially the moments that I truly felt God there with me.