Small Things With Great Love – by Tara Livesay

I know from talking and e-mailing with many of the readers of this blog (and consequently supporters of God’s Littlest Angels) that many of you are wrestling with the enormity of the issues in Haiti and how one person can make a difference.

My friend, Tara Livesay, works with Heartline in Port Au Prince and she recently wrote a very good article on their own blog, The Livesay Haiti Blog, about exactly that issue.

I’d encourage you to read the part of it that I posted below, remember the overriding principle that Tara talks about:

Only God Can Make Haiti Whole

And then continue to do small things with great love for the people in Haiti who need it desperately.

And also click through and read the whole column at Tara’s site (and listen to the radio program she references – I did).

Thanks!

Tom Vanderwell

The Livesay [Haiti] Weblog: Skeptical or Cynical?

Staying focused on doing small things with great love is the singular way to remain sane.

Haiti.

The place is frustrating and difficult and for every problem you might begin to understand and possibly even solve, another will be uncovered, and another only this time deeper. I don’t think any one person, country, injustice, or government is to blame. That is too simple. You don’t end up with complex problems due to simple causes.

All the buzz words and cliche answers, even though true in theory, won’t easily be applied. Not by Haitians and not by foreigners. Sustainability. Yep. Great plan. Infrastructure. Uh-huh, who is not for that? Democracy. Please let it be!

I don’t think there is a man-made formula for fixing it. I don’t think any government will fix it. I don’t think any NGO or combination of NGOs will fix it. I don’t think man will fix it. Only God can make that place whole.

We can pray. We can give in obedience when our hearts tell us to give. We can become informed donors. We can advocate for the voiceless. We can respond to what He is asking us to do. And after all that it might still be what it is today.

Then we can pray more.

Only God can make that place whole.

Until that happens, small things with great love.

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