If you know me, you know I love to love. I have completely fallen in love. I came out here alone not looking for love. I didn't know what I was looking for. I just knew I wanted to do something good. After enough weeks here though, you don't have a choice. You become close with people and eventually love is innevitable. Every morning I wake up I feel blessed just to know her. I am grateful for the fact that she has even given me a chance to get to know her. I love everything about her. Even on her bad days, their is still a deep inner beauty about her. Every single night I witness her doing something, and it just gives me the goosebumps. She is an amazing body of work from head to toe. When I need a hug, or feel home sick I know she is always there to support me. During the day we work together and it feels like magic. The beauty we create while were here is something I can't even put into words. Her brain is something I can't even comprehend. Each day something else blows my mind about her, and I start to understand a new component about her. Her talent and commitment to the project is like nothing I have ever seen before. She works so hard during the day that by the time night falls she doesn't mind a 10 o'clock curfew; because she is so spent, and just ready for the next day to take on the next challenge.
She makes me feel like I am apart of the team, even when I am drifting off in my own head. She is always there to talk to me, and make me laugh when I need it. I have never met anyone like this. When I feel alone, I know she will be there for me. She has the most broad spectrum of skills that everyday my mind is blown by suprise. Some nights I have trouble sleeping because I can't stop thinking about how beautiful she is. Her features start with the heart and the beauty doesn't stop from the inside out. Her name is Hands on Disaster Relief.
I am completely hooked. I think I have found something I want to do for a long time in my life. I wake up everyday just happy to be apart of such an amazing team of people. I live with a family of one hundred plus people now. My heart aches everytime someone I love leaves. At certain points during the day I wish Tuesday would never come, but I know I need this break to refresh my mind. 99% of the people here want to be here for the good of this suffering country. This country needs the love we are handing out. The smiles we get during the day are something that would make you melt at home. Their is something about this country that is infectious. Maybe it's the fact that you see smiles everywhere you go.
This country has been riddled with poverty for many years. Now it has been riddled with disaster and even more poverty. That doesn't stop the people of this country from feeling love. They have hope here, and you can see it everyday with every smile and every hug. They embrace us as one of their own. They speak to us as if we have been friends for years. They dedicate their time to helping us feel comfortable here as much as we dedicate out time to helping them recover. I thought I had a big heart before I came here. Compared to the people of Haiti I don't even have a pulse. I thought I had seen rock bottom in my life and than I came here. I won't even get into a total description of the destruction here, because I don't think I can do it justice without pictures. So, youll have to wait til I get home to hear about that element of this trip.
It melts your heart when people you don't know will give you everything when they have nothing to start with. This entire experience has been beautiful, and I have one last blog to write on Monday before I go home. I can tell you one thing though. I am in love.....
Can't wait to see you all. It makes me want to cry that I made it, and a bit more....
LOVE
Dan
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