No Place I'd Rather Be

I've been in Haiti for a little over a week now, I probably should have blogged sooner but internet isn't a constant here and things have been busy.  All that to say......sorry if this post seems a bit scattered :)

I arrived a day later than expected due to weather delays in Miami, but since then everything has gone really well!  I'm all settled in and getting used to bucket showers and infrequent electricity :)  Everyone on staff here is awesome....true servant hearts that love the Lord!

This is a place full of extreme joy, but also full of extreme heartbreak.  I had only been here a day or two when a man came to the house trying to find out if we had any information about his son.  I didn't really get all the details (I wish I could speak Creole!), but basically his son's mother had sold him to an orphanage.  The mother came by the next day and as she spoke with us it didn't seem like she even really understood what she had done.  Someone had apparently stolen some money from her and she owed someone else money so she had taken her 1 1/2 year old child to an orphanage and sold him.  In the meantime the father had found out through some mutual friends which orphanage it was and he basically stormed the orphanage and retrieved his son (Praise the Lord!).  If an orphanage is willing to purchase a child they are also willing to do anything to profit from having that child, I hope and pray that the mother understood the gravity of that situation.  Please please please pray that places like this orphanage will be closed down.

On a happier note, one of the little boys who lives at the house has totally captured my heart!  He is one of the sweetest little boys ever!  I can't even imagine everything he has been through, but to come out of the situation that he has with such an awesome heart is incredible to see.  He hugs all of us everyday like there's no tomorrow, which of course I love because I love hugs :)  He doesn't speak any English, but he knows the song "Set a Fire" by Will Reagan and loves to sing it.  Last Sunday after church we decided to go to the beach for the afternoon since we have teams coming pretty much every week for the rest of the summer.  On the way to the beach we were listening to that song and we all started singing it.  The presence of God was definitely evident in that moment, it was all I could do to keep from crying.
No place I'd rather be
No place I'd rather be
No place I'd rather be
Than here in Your love
Here in Your love
Set a fire down in my soul that I can't contain, that I can't control
I want more of you God
I want more of you God
I pray for that fire in my soul that longs for more and more of God.  There is definitely no place I'd rather be than in His love.