The Nonsense of Haiti

Yesterday, right here in our province of Archaia, something completely useless and desperately tragic happened. We all know how important food is to these people, who have to search and scrape for every morsel. To parents it's even more of a life-and-death endeavor to feed their kids.

In a school about a 20 minutes' drive from Carries, a woman had two sons whose food she gave them was being taken and eaten every day by a group of other boys, who by the way didn't have any food for themselves. Instead of getting angry when she learned of it, the woman just got evil. She didn't speak with the school directors or teachers or simply bring it to their attention even once. Rather, she saved up a few bucks and bought some poison, put it in the food and sent it with her boys to school. And by the end of the school day yesterday, five boys were dead. Five boys. They not in trouble or apologizing. They're gone. The school was not told until afterward what had been happening.

These are the kind of hopeless things that happen every day in this place. It seems so often that people don't think, they just react. They don't consider consequences. Their actions are almost always simply selfish and self-serving.

Now, of course, there are splendid exceptions to that. There are people with hope in this country. But in the shadow of a towering wave of enemy attacks in the form of deceit and selfishness, hope seems like only a ripple.

Then again, that IS how God does his business, isn't it? He makes ripples into waves- earth-crushing, overcoming, immovable waves. And it's our prayer and expectation that He does just that.