The past couple months have been pretty crazy for our little family. I mean our boys are oblivious to it all, but Jesse and I are very keenly aware. Our vacation to the states ended by us adding two more weeks than planned because of all the political unrest in Port-au-Prince and surrounding cities (huge thank you to those who made that extra two weeks possible!). Our community in Gwo Cheval was almost completely untouched by the “dezòd” (craziness), but we couldn’t get home without flying into and driving through where there were road blocks and people with weapons and all that sort of thing.
Once we made it home we had about a week and a half to settle-in and get ready for a team coming from our home church Cornerstone Church Milwaukee. There was unpacking and cleaning and reconnecting with our community and school staff meetings and new student registration and construction planning and material ordering and all that sort of thing – and in the midst of our busy life here, my best friend and her husband were experiencing a traumatic birth and devastating loss of their third born, Seraphina Rose, and then in the midst of that our baby number four was miscarried. We were (and are) mourning for them and us in the midst of so much life and craziness swirling around…
We had two weeks of teams and visitors and construction and summer school and teacher training and normal-hard Haiti life. Then in the midst of it, a husband of one of our staff members intensified family issues (he IS the issue by the way) which has left us all speechless and not knowing what to do…
This life is a crazy one… and I know we are not the only ones experiencing it. There is so much tragedy and loss in the midst of so much fun and life. And in the midst of it all Jesus is our Anchor. When we place our trust in Him and follow Him and look to Him in the midst of triumph or in the midst of tragedy we will find our focus again. The anchor of a ship keeps it from being thrown off course during a storm, but that doesn’t mean the ship won’t waiver a bit… there may be doubts and fears and distraction, but when Jesus is our Anchor we know our center and our life with Him will continue no matter what happens in the midst of this life.
My prayer is that each one of us would find our sure footing in Jesus, no matter what we are in the midst of.