Haiti is often a place where difficult choices have to be made—choices between dozens of good options, and choices between dozens of bad options, sometimes in the course of a single day. John McHoul often calls Haiti the land of "unlimited impossibility".
We spent some time with Olez today (the Friday before Christmas). We first met her after the earthquake when she brought her granddaughter Rose into the field hospital (our first night there). Rose had been stepped on in the family tent…she was just a few weeks old (her mother had died in the earthquake) and made a quick recovery. But our relationship with Olez continued, mostly because a Canadian nurse, Lise, took an interest in this family and always sends gifts down there with us for them…so we have seen her every visit since that time.
Olez also has two handicapped children of her own, as well as Rose and Rose’s older brother, to care for. Recently she made the heart wrenching decision to give the grandkids up for adoption. She told us about this through tears. We were going to visit the kids at the orphange, to give them the gifts that Lise had sent with us. We invited her to come with us and see them and she said no, it would be too hard. Later she changed her mind and decided to go, crying before and after the visit. Her heart clearly broken. Her heart clearly doing the most painful thing to her, in order to do the most loving thing for these grandkids. Not an easy decision.
This is happening to a dear friend of ours sister:
http://livesayhaiti.blogspot.com/2011/08/imagine-if-you-will.html
We have cried a lot of tears with these people this week…and there is no quick fix to any of these situations. Please pray for Olez and “K” and those who love them and the "impossible" choices they are faced with.
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