I don't even know if I have permission by the author of this blog to do this, but I want to put a link here to a post you really really really need to read. It's a long one. Take the time.
I just found this blog two minutes ago and the pictures and story already made me cry. Especially the part about the little baby sucking on her fingers on a mat covered in vomit with tears rolling down her cheeks trying to soothe herself. Because she looks just about the age of Olivia. And Olivia already hit the jackpot by being born in America, because although being an orphan and part of the "system" is horrible in America, being born an orphan in another country is a whole new level of horror.
This quote? Talk about convicting...
"One reason we came to Haiti was to face the truth. See it with our eyes. Hold it in our hands. Quit denying sadness on this scale is real.
When you look at the amount of suffering in our world, count up the number of orphans rotting away in crummy orphanages, and consider how poor the majority of people are on this earth, as a whole, I think we can all admit...the response from American Christians and the American church is ridiculous and embarrassing.
We live in Haiti right now, trying to learn how to fight these things, but let's never ever forget that just one year ago we were living in the US in a fancy house in a fancy neighborhood living the American dream ignoring the poor, the oppressed, and the orphan."
Again, I got this from this blog allthingshendrick.blogspot.com. I'm just trying to be respectful and quote my sources.
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