Miracles

There are miracles.

Through all the devastation and heartache, things like this are happening all over Haiti because there is a God and He is mindful of His people. It is agonizing for those whose prayers have not yet been answered, but there is a plan.

At the beginning of our adoption journey, I had strong feelings about Haiti. I really wanted to adopt from there. On a trip to Miami, we found a Haitian ward and attended church there. The people were incredibly warm and open, the beautiful children were allowed to roam the aisles. If one needed a mama, any one of the congregation would pick that child up. The meeting was all in Haitian Creole, except for the talk from the visiting Stake President. His ethnic background was Dominican, and he spoke English with a heavy Spanish accent. I don't know how any of the Creole speakers understood him, but I didn't understand 90 percent of the meeting, and I got it anyway. It was there in that meeting that I got a sense of the universal nature of Heavenly Father's plan and understood that his love transcends language and culture, and that he loves each one of us.

In an article today, I read about a Haitian woman who had lost her daughter in the hurricanes a few years ago. Her son was killed in the recent earthquake. She said, "I am scared, but I keep praying." That is a kind of strength that I can't even imagine. As we go about our daily lives today, there are tragedies and miracles swirling around the little island of Hispanola in the Caribbean Sea. There are countless prayers being offered up on behalf of a tiny nation and God's children who live there. There are planes full of aid going in, planes full of children coming out. My girls raised $118.00 selling their dolls. It's a drop in the ocean, but it helps. I saw that one family had raised ten thousand dollars for jet fuel to go to Port Au Prince to get their children and others. The plane has to be full of humanitarian aid to land in PAP, so the LDS Church is filling its hold with needed supplies. There is so much more to do, it makes you wonder, why even try? I don't know. I just think we can make a difference. And if we don't bear one another's burdens, then who are we?