(Final in a series)
Angel Guides
Romans 12:2 (NIV)
John Fleming & John McCorkle
Our mission
team has arrived back in the USA. For me it happened in earnest this morning
waking up in my own bed. Starting with emotional goodbyes to the young men
guides we have grown to love, to proceeding through the Haitian side of an
endless maze of airport check ins and customs inspections, the journey road felt
full of pot holes and speed bumps much like the streets of Port-au-Prince. Then
a somewhat bumpy flight followed by the Atlanta side customs process and we
were back on familiar soil with traffic lights, paved roads and, most of the
time, a right of way. I thought of the atmospheric reentry that astronauts
experience when they return to our planet. The pattern of the world we
experienced in Haiti does not conform to the pattern of the world we live in
here in Georgia.
Our mission to Haiti was about healing. Yes, it was medical
in substance with the subscribing of fungal cream and blood pressure pills all
of which provide corrective physical healing over time. This is the
healing of our worlds whether Port-au-Prince or Atlanta. The true healing that
took place on this trip was expressed in a young sister, another of Abba’s
daughters, who could not hear or speak, teaching us to sign “I love you”. It
was healing played out watching our adept driver learn to swim in the Caribbean
and opening his eyes under salt water for the first time. For this writer, it
was a big hug from a three-hundred-pound misty eyed teddy bear who would be a
security guard.
This week
was about the healing that is born of the Holy Spirit. It is a healing that
cannot help but to travel both ways. It is the healing that transforms the giver
into the recipient and the student into the teacher. It is the renewing of our
minds. It is the testing and approving of God’s will for us. And we know for
certain we are abiding in His good, pleasing and perfect will. Se’ yon bil bagay!
Father thank you for always being
present and ready to heal us when we conform to the pattern of the world. Amen
Bradford
Bosworth
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