Ex. 18:3b: …for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land.
Imagine, if you will, being anesthetized and placed inside an Apollo space capsule back in 1969, only to wake up 3 days later and find yourself on the surface of the moon. Or being transported from a beautiful tropical paradise in Hawaii to the middle of the Sahara desert in a heartbeat. If you try to imagine such scenes, you might get a sense of what it was like for me when we arrived in Haiti in April of 2010, barely three months after the devastating earthquake of January 11 that year. It was certainly akin to finding oneself in a “strange land.”
I was blessed to go as a spiritual resource for an emergency medical response team assembled by two Christian organizations: Jordan International Aid and the Enoch Choi Medical Foundation. Most of us left the comforts of our American homes for a place where we knew there was great need. The catch: none of us knew how great that need would be. After all, it had been three months since the quake happened. I was naïve enough to wonder if much of the rubble had been cleaned away (it hadn’t), what the spirit of the people would be like, and what the next 10 days would hold.
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