I've been absent on this blog for a long time. Starting a new job, balancing being a full-time working mom and the precious hours I get to be home has been a challenging transition. Slowly we are settling in to a routine. I'm happy to be working in a community health center with a largely Latino, uninsured, underserved population... Somedays I feel like I'm in another country without need for a passport.

And as we adjust to this American life, our hearts still pull toward Haiti.

I just read a blog by a woman living and working in Haiti. I haven't read her before, but this entry made me weep. She writes honestly and brutally about the orphan situation that patrick and I struggled so hard with while we lived there. And I want to repost her writing because I feel like what she describes needs to be read, needs to be considered. Although I had walked through so many of the experiences she described, I was shocked how raw my emotions felt reading her descriptions... as if I was too quick to cover up the truth of the situation in Haiti, padding my soul so it didn't hurt anymore. But sometimes we need to be reminded of pain to be jump started into action. Emerge out of apathy. Throwing away, "its not my problemness." Because we are human. And it IS our problem.

Her blog is: http://allthingshendrick.blogspot.com/

THIS is the post I needed to read tonight. I hope you are equally moved.