“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” Sometimes you just need to quote Dickens to describe things in Haiti. Kathy and I were treated to some of the “best” things recently in Haiti: visits to other ministries to learn how to improve our clinic; help from friends to look for housing for us and vehicles for us to drive; rich visits to villages for medical clinics with a team from two different areas of Indiana; and unloading a semi full of supplies that will vastly improve the life of many Haitians. The blessings, the stories and the view of God was visible in living color as we learned to follow and trust Him in new and different ways.
Occasionally, however, we saw some of the “worst” of times: a young polio victim, an ostracized young man who was viewed as evil due to his disability, untreatable cancers with no apparent availability to pain relief; poverty that seemingly had no end; and hopelessness on the faces of people who feel abandoned by this world. It seems that our work as followers of Christ is to let people know that there is hope ahead for the “best of times”, if not in this world, then in heaven. For all of us in this world who feel we are in the midst of the “worst of times”, have hope!! May God show you through a smile, a prayer, a touch, a rainbow, some sunshine or the sense that He is present, that there is hope. The “best of times” are ahead!
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