Hope, Encouragement & Strength
As a missionary living in Haiti full time people always ask me how I do it. How do I live here? Isn't it difficult or uncomfortable? How do I survive? When I hear questions like this, sometimes I am taken aback by how little people understand the reality of Haiti. In the past these questions have bothered me. I am choosing now to not let them bother me but to rather educate people instead. People like to celebrate people for the way that they choose to live or choose to sacrifice for others. Yes, living here is hard for me at times but the thing that we should be focusing on is how hard it is for HAITIANS. It can be hard for me to live in Haiti at times because the culture is different than my own, I am functioning my second language and there is a lot that I may not understand or be used to. However, all of that would happen to me if I lived in almost any country that is not my own. The part that we should be focusing on is not how I manage, as I sit in my apartment drinking my
