The Wonderful Adventures Of Andrew Hawkes

The Haiti You Don’t See.

I can show you picture after picture of kids covered in cement dust, torn shirts from the 80’s and people just sitting down outside of their homes that now stand 5ft tall.

In fact I will - and yes the pictures just might make you think differently for a few minutes..

And I also hope you can somehow realize that I looked right through the lens of these people. They are all very real humans - if you really want I can show you where they live.

However, if I stopped rolling the film after that - then what picture do you create of God?

For me — I saw Him as a someone to plea with. A person who needs to come and fix this all. Someone who really should visit Haiti and rule with a iron fist. “Lord save these people and let them see you!” We are hoping for Him to show up right?

I think I was partially wrong. I can’t describe the beauty of this country but I heard one American Feller, “Ya know, ev’n with all this garbage lay’n round, ya can’t even tell ‘cause the country is just so beautiful.”

What I saw in Jacmel made me realize that God has already revealed himself in this land. And I was too full of doubtful blindness to see it.

Please please please look around. Should we be looking to the darkness to drive us to ‘do better’? We see poverty, destruction, dark spirituality as the catalyst to get us going in our spirituality.

But shouldn’t the beauty of His love for this world be enough? I looked around the other day and saw some amazing things. In possibly the ‘darkest’ part of the world, I saw an amazing ministry, that will allow orphans to have loving homes on perhaps the most serene setting I have ever encountered.

I would have loved to hear David’s rendition of Psalm 84, even though - It’d probably sound like mumbojumbo to me - at least the words are still good.

And yet still some question, “Is there a creator?” They needed to come on this trip.

All the pictures of the city taken right from my window.