Here we are in Haiti!

Hey Everyone! Our Live OneWorld adventure has begun! We arrived in Haiti one week ago today. Every time I begin something new then I create a list of things I want to get out of the experience. Normally, broadcasting my experiences and trying to allow others to gain insights from what I have learned is at the top of my list (like the Live for Haiti campaign where I slept in a tent on the streets of DC to raise awareness and funds for shelter in Haiti). That has been fun. But right now I am at a different place in my life. I don’t want to bring attention to what I’m doing. One reason is because I don’t want to feed any sense of self-glorification. But mainly, it is because I want to have an experience with my wife where I am fully present to the moment. I want to concentrate on following God because I don’t know exactly where He is leading me.

I have always found my value in the things I produce, in the work I have done, and in the things I have accomplished. Some might think this is a good characteristic, but it is not. Value comes from God, and God alone. Value comes from the type of person I am becoming, not through the results of my work.

I need to pray more. God leads with a lamp… not a flashlight. I can only see the next step right in front of me, and I cannot see what is up ahead. I must trust that if I step in the direction that my innermost self instructs, then I will be led into fulfillment and not off of a cliff.

God has led my wife and I to Haiti. What are we doing here? Sure we are trying to run a Live OneWorld Global Education Initiative and set up transformative travel experiences to the developing world… but what are we really doing here; at a deeper level, not at the level of action but at the level of our souls?

We are here to grow, to be transformed. To grow closer to God, closer to each other, closer to the person within that God created us to be.

“In the beginning I could see the end,.
In advance, I knew of the things not yet done.
I say, my plans for you will stand.
In you, my purpose will come to pass.”
-a mixture of a passage somewhere in the bible and somewhere in my mind

God you have called us to Haiti and now here we are…