Haiti - Being Present - June 2015

My oldest daughter graduated in May and her move home is complete (until the October wedding anyway).  We’ve just wrapped up my youngest daughter’s high school graduation festivities and events and she’s settling into the summer fun of being a teenager.   My goal, theme if you will, for 2015 is to show up and to be present.  I desperately wanted to be present for the graduations.  I wanted to show up.  That is a true challenge for me.  My brain lives six month out (at least) and I’m almost always worried about or planning for the future and often missing out on the present.

As I’ve been consciously working on this over the past several months, I have almost felt guilty that I haven’t been focused on the journey to Haiti.  But now, the time is here to shift my focus and get myself prepared.  I just can’t wait to go. 

I’m all about being focused, scheduled, ready to check the next thing off of my list.  Saturday my list will become so drastically different, so intensely not about me, so driven by God’s call and not mine.  I can’t tell you how I long for that.   I know that feeling and there is nothing like it.  When I feel called to get up and go it’s almost hard to contain myself. 

In Haiti, the highest in the world, 77% of residents live in poverty.  The smells will be different, the sounds will be different, the daily routine of life will be different. 

Time to quiet my mind, open up my eyes, my ears, and my heart, and go.

I'll be taking notes while I'm gone and hitting the keyboard when I return.  More then.  

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone that has supported my trip with yard sale donations, funds, prayers... just your awesome support!

Can. Not. Wait.