Something else Haiti has given me
Sitting on a comfy red chair I look around the room. Amy is to my left, Bailey in the middle and Jeremy to my right. I can't help but laugh. Who would have ever thought the four of us would be sitting together in this super cute apartment in Austin, Texas?
You see, Amy is from Oklahoma City, Bailey is from some teeny tiny town in Missouri, Jeremy is from Jacksonville and I am from the great white north.
How in the world did this random group of misfits ever get connected???
Haiti.
As I laughed about my fun afternoon with good friends it dawned on me that a large percentage of my closest friends are people I have met in Haiti. It seems as though Mission of Hope is a magnet for amazing people!
The friends I have made through Mission of Hope are not your average friends. These friends are the 'for better or worse, in sickness and in health' kind, the life long kind, the 'would do anything for you' kind. The kind who open their homes to you, expecting nothing in return, the kind who fly you across the country to see that very special little man you've been missing, the kind who drive for hours to spend a few with you, the kind who think of you when they have an extra Dave Matthews ticket laying around, the kind that makes you carrot juice with a cheese grater when you're sick, the kind of friend that tells you it's OK to not be OK, the kind that takes your inner ugliness and somehow sees it as beauty, the kind of friend that knows when you need to hear,"I told you so." and when you don't, the kind of friend that tells you the truth, even when it isn't easy to hear.
I realized today that Haiti hasn't only given me amazing children it's given me amazing friends too.
Peace, love and good friends,
Rachel
You see, Amy is from Oklahoma City, Bailey is from some teeny tiny town in Missouri, Jeremy is from Jacksonville and I am from the great white north.
How in the world did this random group of misfits ever get connected???
Haiti.
As I laughed about my fun afternoon with good friends it dawned on me that a large percentage of my closest friends are people I have met in Haiti. It seems as though Mission of Hope is a magnet for amazing people!
The friends I have made through Mission of Hope are not your average friends. These friends are the 'for better or worse, in sickness and in health' kind, the life long kind, the 'would do anything for you' kind. The kind who open their homes to you, expecting nothing in return, the kind who fly you across the country to see that very special little man you've been missing, the kind who drive for hours to spend a few with you, the kind who think of you when they have an extra Dave Matthews ticket laying around, the kind that makes you carrot juice with a cheese grater when you're sick, the kind of friend that tells you it's OK to not be OK, the kind that takes your inner ugliness and somehow sees it as beauty, the kind of friend that knows when you need to hear,"I told you so." and when you don't, the kind of friend that tells you the truth, even when it isn't easy to hear.
I realized today that Haiti hasn't only given me amazing children it's given me amazing friends too.
Peace, love and good friends,
Rachel
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