“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.” Psalm 63:1-5
As I was going through another group of photos of Trinity HOPE children the attached just leaped out at me. When sleep is interrupted at night I have been getting up and reading through the Psalms and these verses from Psalm 63 seemed to be a good match with these children.
This group of children attends a school in the Les Cayes District in the Southwest part of Haiti. My humble words cannot begin to adequately describe the reverence of their meal prayer. They are sitting at a table in their school, temperature is around 90 with matching humidity; the school has no running water or electricity and the majority of these children had nothing to eat since they left this table yesterday. The plate in front of them is the ‘richest of foods’ and with the ‘singing lips of their mouths they praise our Heavenly Father’ for the gift they are about to receive.
These children understand how important this blessing is to them, how wonderful it is to have a loving God and how important the Trinity HOPE meals are to each of them. If you would like to help us feed children in a Trinity HOPE program in Haiti, or find out how your congregation or organization can also feed a school and prepare missionaries in Haiti, please check out our Trinity HOPE website or learn more about us at Charity Navagator.
Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, 8not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you,
Jay