waving prayers

We're home safely!  Matt was in a staff meeting by 10 am this morning, Don, Lily, Sofie and I got home by 10:30, and we were all at Abel's for lunch at noon!

Lily was thrilled to be back to rice and beans, we've gotten to catch up with various friends, staff members and students throughout the day.  Micheline came and helped me out, the dirt is washed out of the house, we're mostly unpacked, Don built a Barbie house with Lily and gave Boone a bath...it's good to be home!

As our flight was taking off this morning at 6 am, I looked over my shoulder in the darkness and saw an older woman silently waving her hands in the air--a Haitian prayer style--asking the Lord for a safe flight.  I turned around a little further and realized that half the plane was silently praying with her.  It was a beautiful moment, with the dawn just beginning to break, hands waving all around me like tree branches in the breeze, silent prayers being lifted.

It's how we often feel.  Though we rarely hear the prayers being lifted for Emmaus, for our little family, for Haiti, we often feel them around us and see the movement of a God at work.  We're so thankful to be surrounded by a praying family and a faithful Father.  We love you!