Amy, From Pennsylvania, Reflects On Her Most Recent Trip

Now that I’m home, and back to our American ways of hustle, busyness and craziness, I sit and reflect on my experience in Haiti. I ask for God’s thoughts to pour into my heart.

I have been to Haiti before. Yet this trip had a totally different effect on my heart. Because this was my family’s first trip to Haiti, I so wanted to share with them what was on my heart ever since my first visit to this country.

We have so much here in the United States. Sometimes everything can be right at our beck and call – food, car, clothes, house, and family. I know I have taken a lot of these things for granted. I always ask God to give me something new on these trips so that I can discover Him on a deeper level. Thank God! He answers our prayers and knows what we need even before we ask.

Midway through the trip, my son got sick. So he and I stayed at the guesthouse for one day while the team went to the worksite. We were praying and knew that God, with His favor and in His timing, had allowed us to go to Haiti. Giving God my desire for Him to heal my son, I knew He would. I knew the blood of Christ was covering him.

As Adlynn was sleeping, my thoughts went back to the children at the orphanage. We had spent time with them just a few days ago. I thought about the love of a parent for their children. I thought of how God so loved Jesus that He was willing to sacrifice Him for us sinners. What true love! Those children at the orphanage have no parents but in Jesus, they do have all they need!

I remembered how they were all so happy, bubbly, full of smiles and laughter. We spent time with them playing soccer, jumping rope, reading letters, holding them, loving on them and letting them play with our hair. What joy it is to see a child’s heart.

Isn’t that what God is telling us to have – a child-like heart. I pray that we all will look into our hearts and see that we need Jesus to be first and foremost in our lives. I long for the day I will see my King. But for now, all I want to do is serve Him whenever and wherever He calls me.