Don’t Shut Away Truth
Think of the poorest country in the world.
Which did you think of? Indonesia? Philippines? Myanmar? North Korea?
Unless you thought of Uganda, Burkina Faso, Burma, Mali, Guinea, Nepal, Comoros, Madagascar, Tokelau, Mozambique, Rwanda, Togo, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Liberia or Burundi, the country that you thought of is wealthier than Haiti in terms of GDP.
Most of us here are not familiar with Haiti, after all it’s on the other side of the world. We may have heard the name before, and may have been fooled to believe that it is a charming and idyllic island just south of Miami, Florida. The truth is, though Haiti is set among the glittering Caribbean islands, life in Haiti was hard. Whatever GDP that God had provided for the people there had been hogged and controlled by a few powerful men while the rest of the Haitians go without. People were so poor that they sold themselves and when they could, they sold their children as well.
Then, an earthquake struck.
Image from Jonycunha@Flickr
The Lord loves Haiti. I know that because recently, God drew our attention to it. God made sure we found out that for too long, His people of Haiti had been sleeping in unsafe houses without food in their stomachs.
Of course there are some of us who are afraid to have our hearts broken, so we close our eyes and shut our ears whenever the news come on about the sufferings there. But those who are courageous, they allowed their eyes to see and their ears to hear and their hearts to be pounded and made tender. So, they fall in love with Haiti and give all that they have to love and help her.
Open your eyes, ears and hearts and move by it. You’ll be amazed by who you become, by the love that you’ll have, by the softness of your new heart.
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