Wow, what a week of intense emotions it has been for me. Many of tears have been shed for the people of Haiti. My heart aches...literally aches. I am continually crying out to Jesus for the Haitians and for the Livesays (and those they are working with).
A few years ago, I had begun praying for the flood gates to open and for the orphans to be released from this country and this week the Lord is answering those countless prayers. As I watch airplanes of orphans landing on American soil, the tears roll down my cheeks. How Great is our God! I don't understand why it took devastation in order for them to be released, but I am not in a position to question the ways of God. I know He is Sovereign, and that is all I know.
This week we found the family that is adopting sweet little Juvenson through a news story. My sister in law saw it on their local news station and sent me the link. WOW...just wow! Boy did it hit me hard. I am so overjoyed that he will be safe. He was very much *our son* in our hearts so I needed to process through some grief again. Yesterday their orphanage loaded a bus and van to get to the US Embassy to try to get out. They were not granted permission so they had to go back to the orphanage. I can not imagine the thoughts of the older children...thinking they were finally getting to come to America...only to head back to their icky orphanage. I did hear word that they were going to work on paperwork through the night in order to get them all out today. I pray this happens! These children are innocent and they need what can be given them here.
Last week, the girls came running to me telling me to grab my camera. As I walked into the living room, the glow of the fireplace was flickering on Matt and Hudson sound asleep together on the couch. I began clicking away. It was a moment that was so beautiful yet full of strange emotions. I first saw Matt fall in love with having a son while in Haiti. The images of him with the boys flooded my mind. The memories of us holding each other as we stood in a parking lot watching the the boys being taken back to the orphanage hit my heart. The overwhelming gratitude for Hudson hit me. The joy of his addition to our family hit. The love I have for Matt and the wonderful daddy he is hit me. I love that Hudson is peacefully asleep in daddy's arms. He is lying their safe in his daddy's arms yet I wonder who is holding Juvenson. I pray the Lord cradles these orphans. I know He loves them so much! We still will never understand why everything happened the way it did with our Haitian adoption...but we never for a second doubt that Hudson was our son chosen by God all along our journey. It really was such a beautiful moment and I am so grateful that I have this image forever! I know whenever I look on it, it will stir memories, emotions, and intensity...but that is the beauty of art! 
Friday, January 22, 2010
My heart for Haiti...
Posted by Laura Lu at 9:45 AM
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I'm stirred too. Although Tyrus is from the US and not Haiti, I feel similar emotions. He was sick, this week, and I spent a whole day snuggling with him on the couch. I held him and cried, remembering many of the images I have seen on the Haitian devestation. Earlier this week, I saw a 4 year old Haitian boy with broken legs and spine laying on the floor of a makeshift clinic. His name was unknown, his mother dead. All I could think about was Ty and what it would feel like to have be scared and hurt, with no mother around.
I thanked God for hours on end, that day, that I could comfort my baby boy's pain away, when so many Haitian orphans were not so lucky...
Laura- this is beautiful! I have missed your blogging... We are continuing to pray for the orphans and people of Haiti.
beautiful Laura, just beautiful! And thanks for sharing your heart, your prayers and your story...God is so faithful and working in ways we could never imagine.
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