Hey folks.
Just learned today, via someone’s facebook status update, that there are an estimated 147 million orphans in the world. So then I got curious… and did a little researching up on our own hood, and I found out some pretty shocking stuff. I don’t know how I missed this before. Out of the 9 million people living in haiti… current estimates place somewhere near 1 million of those people… as orphans. Yup. So walking down the street, among the crowds, in the markets… 1 in 9 people is not just a child… it is an orphaned child. No mother. No father. No nothing. Seriously people, that is just ridiculous. Yet again, we realize that Haiti is not your average poor country.
Bless each one today, oh God, and open our eyes wider still.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has the eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine
