Saturday, January 16, 2010

Blessed


I am feeling extremely humbled and blessed right now after watching all the news about Haiti.
Last night I went to the movies with my little family. We came home and Kaden was eating a hard lifesaver when he started choking on it. I could hear Jay yelling for someone to get some water so I ran upstairs and Jay had Kaden over his leg hitting his back. He was throwing up but it still wasn't coming out. I picked him up and held him over the sick so he could continue to throw up cause I figured that would be the best way to dislodge it. After what felt like forever, he finally threw it up and just cried while I held him. We went to bed like normal, with Jay, Kaden, Me and Preston (in that order) in our bed. I was feeling really uptight still, from knowing that if Ecko and Jay hadn't been in there with Kaden and noticed him choking, I could be feeling the same pain that the Haitians are feeling right now, so Jay and I got into a little argument and I couldn't fall asleep so I kept thinking that I should move Preston to the other side of me so he wasn't on the edge of the bed cause I had a feeling he might fall off. I didn't listen to that feeling and fell asleep. It felt like I had barely dozed off when I was awaken to a thud and instant crying, Preston fell off the bed. I picked him up and just held him tightly against me for a little bit saying, I knew it, Why couldn't I have just listened. Needless to say, I didn't get a whole lot of sleep.
I got the laptop and laid in bed while I read about the Orphans in Haiti and felt so blessed that I have a home for my family to live in and besides a few bruises we are all so healthy and happy.

I hurt so much for the people of Haiti and Pray that God will let me know something I can do to help them. I was asking Jay why we couldn't just buy a home to bring some of the orphans here and care for them, and he said "well, we probably could but that takes money and we don't have that." I said "well, I'm sure there are plenty of people that have the money to help but no time, so couldn't we just get investors to help with the financial part and I will take care of the kids." Then I started wondering, even if we did a the finances, how possible would it be to get them here. I don't understand why if there is such a crisis why it's not possible to just make things simple. So at this point I am just feeling discouraged with nothing I can do, but I will say that I am going to do all I can to try to make my plan work and I would love any help, advice, and prayers I can get. I thank God for my Truly blessed life!

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