however big ENOUGH is

I have a confession to make.

My faith has been wavery.

We have never been through anything like this season in our lives.

There is no Wikipedia article for how to navigate turbulent times in a third world country during political upheaval and humanitarian crisis as Haitian foreigners.

There is no missionary check-list of the right way, or I'd be ON it.

There is no book on "Raising Young Children Well in Caribbean Chaos."

Maybe I'll figure it out and write that book someday for someone else. But in the meantime...

I have another confession to make.

We are making this all up as we go along.

Do you ever feel that way?

Parenting struggles, marriage struggles, job issues, health issues, financial issues, struggles you never thought you'd have, never thought you'd deal with, don't even begin to know how.

Yes, Haiti is not in a good place.

Yet we are here. 

Many, many of us.

Many thousands of men and women and children who LOVE the Lord and who LOVE our neighbors and who are doing all we can to do one day at a time with His outrageous grace...you know...that same outrageous grace He extended, extends still, to me.

Maybe you're not in a good place, either.  Or maybe the world around you seems to be struggling, struggling and you are helpless to do anything but meet the struggle.

We don't have it all figured out, that's for sure.

But if I could preach?

Don't worry about figuring it all out, about handling it all perfectly, about doing all the right things.

Just be there, adding to the numbers, shining light, shining Light...men and women and children who LOVE the Lord and who LOVE their neighbors and who are doing all we can to do one day at a time with His outrageous grace.

It might be awfully uncomfortable, not fixing it, not knowing it, not mastering it, not rocking it.

It might have you up at night, wavering.

But when we are small, yet faithful...He will be however big enough is.  

He is however big enough is.

Wherever you are standing, stand with us.