Love is Enough
Recently, I was talking with my friend Cheryl about writing. You see, she is in the process of finishing a novel which is so impressive to me. The reason I do not write in this space more often is because I do not have anything interesting to say or I have too much to say and do not know how to organize my thoughts well. There has been a lot on my mind lately:
1. We are about three months away from the date we choose to leave. Do you know what that means? That means major de-cluttering, selling our house, finding our replacement at church, filling out all the paperwork that is necessary to move out of the country and saying goodbye. That is a lot so today, I decided the best way to tackle all of that was to do nothing.
2. The United Methodist Church chose the Traditional Plan. Let me tell you what the UMC means to me: People who are intelligent and funny and welcoming and accepting and compassionate no matter who walks through the doors. They have made us laugh and made us cry and taught us what it means to be a church family.
3. Our church had a Volleyball Tournament Fundraiser for our family and raised an incredible amount of money for us. Our church alone has raised all of the startup costs that will allow us to furnish our home in Haiti.
4. The protests in Haiti have subsided. Fuel and food are back in stock and the teachers have returned to Cowman after being off almost 3 weeks. Haiti still needs a lot of prayer to move in a helpful direction.
I will close with a poem that I found after reading the title on a T-shirt:
1. We are about three months away from the date we choose to leave. Do you know what that means? That means major de-cluttering, selling our house, finding our replacement at church, filling out all the paperwork that is necessary to move out of the country and saying goodbye. That is a lot so today, I decided the best way to tackle all of that was to do nothing.
2. The United Methodist Church chose the Traditional Plan. Let me tell you what the UMC means to me: People who are intelligent and funny and welcoming and accepting and compassionate no matter who walks through the doors. They have made us laugh and made us cry and taught us what it means to be a church family.
3. Our church had a Volleyball Tournament Fundraiser for our family and raised an incredible amount of money for us. Our church alone has raised all of the startup costs that will allow us to furnish our home in Haiti.
4. The protests in Haiti have subsided. Fuel and food are back in stock and the teachers have returned to Cowman after being off almost 3 weeks. Haiti still needs a lot of prayer to move in a helpful direction.
I will close with a poem that I found after reading the title on a T-shirt:
Love Is Enough
Love is enough: though the World be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder And this day draw a veil over all deeds pass’d over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter; The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
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