A Catalytic Lifechange of Epic Proportions

Life. Wow! It is so surprising. I cannot even begin to understand how this works, but here is one great thing that I have discovered… When you completely surrender your life to a cause, to a person, to your God, you are in for an adventure.

A week ago, for the first time my size seven feet landed on the ground in Haiti. Going into this trip, I knew that something big was coming but I was unprepared for just how big that something was going to be. Sometimes, one week carries the significance of a year. Sometimes, the things that God has been speaking to you will suddenly make perfect and sudden sense. In an overwhelming symphony of Love your heart will be overpowered, expanded and left breathless. In chemistry terms, a catalyst causes the reaction to take place at an exponential rate. Take all the progress and growth that you have been experiencing and multiply it by ten, one hundred, or one thousand.

I have no doubt that, in life, everything can change in a few days. The death and resurrection of Christ took place in a few days, and forever changed the course of History as we know it. I think that God operates on a timeline that is not a line, it is a web, a mass of roots tangled together, where one event can feed into various circumstances that branch out, cause growth. So, I am writing in an attempt to understand the things that I have seen, experienced and the things that have changed within me. This is the story of my trip to Haiti. This is the story where God is the hero, the ultimate catalyst, the one who has the plan. I am a grateful participant in His story.

“Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your hearts, and try to love the questions themselves. Like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue… do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to LIVE EVERYTHING! Live the questions themselves. Perhaps you will then, gradually without knowing it, live along some distant day to the answer.” - Ranier Maria Rilke