I wrote this quote in the front of my journal for Haiti:

your reward for feeling the fear and doing it anyway is the unmistakable joy of living your life instead of renting it.  That is worth leaping for. -Lara  Casey

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I’ve heard that this is the Haiti funk.

the first couple days when you get back and you are trying to get back into the swing of things but nothing really seems that important compared to starving kids

and you can’t understand why the girl working at the post office is being rude to everyone

and you just want to shake her and scream

“at least you have a job, and a home that isn’t a tent, and food to eat today”

and you savor every second with your family because you realize that is so much more important than any other junk you would normally stress about.

and my prayer is

that I don’t loose that Haiti funk.

because it kinda feels like freedom to me.

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This Saturday I’m attending a Making Things Happen Intensive.

And it’s perfectly times with my heart being completely open to what God wants.

it’s scary, exhilarating, and unknown.

but I’m done with renting life.

and ready to leap.

Tags: haiti, haiti missions

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