When I heard the news of the earthquake I thought to myself, "Seriously?!! Have this people not been through enough?!" My heart thoughts and prayers have been with the Haitians this past week. I was asked last week about going down for disaster relief, but they wanted a 4-5 week commitment and I can't do that long away from my family and job. And I am already committed to the June 2010 medical team to Haiti. I received another email last nite about a possible relief team to head down but only for a couple weeks. HFH/MTI have sent a disaster team including Papa Joe and Linda on Thursday.. I cannot even fathom what they are seeing. I recognize so many of the buildings and areas that have collapsed. The UN headquarters that collapsed were just warehouses in 1994 that we stayed in when I went down with the military... Many of the police stations and even the prison I recognize because as military police we worked at them all while we were down there. I am, however, happy to see so much news coverage on the situation. When the Hurricanes hit in 2008, it was barely mentioned on news.
I am up up in Portland this weekend. It is has been a very busy last couple weekends for us but fun as well. And it's nice to get out of town every once in a while.
Many Blessings,
~M
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