It’s a wet day in Perth and I’m enjoying the rain at the moment. It’s lovely to see everything looking fresh and clean, washed by the rain.
Mind you, when I hear and see the rain I’m also a little saddened. It makes me remember one of the nights I spent in Haiti recently. We were in our hotel watching rain fall across the city of Port-au-Prince. It was nice for us but our minds turned to the hundreds of thousands of Haitian families, trying to sleep in their one room homes with leaking tin rooves.
We were told how they just keep trying to find a dry corner to get some protection from the weather. Many of their homes are too small for the entire family to sleep at one time so they sleep in shifts. You can imagine how much harder it is when the rain starts falling.
It’s hard to even begin to contemplate avoiding rain all night then having to get up the next day for work; if you have any work to go to.
I’m very much looking forward to Compassion Day on the 15th of May when we can make a difference for some of those people.
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We live very fortunate lives in so many respects. Thanks for the reminder.
You’re so right, Hazelblackberry. Visiting places like Haiti is certainly a good reality check for me.
Thank you for the photo and posting! The photo reminded me of people I have seen and met on travels in Malaysia; living in similar ‘housing’ there. I guess you’ve seen similar in India too and other places you’ve been.
The same scenarios are lived out by others all over the world! But not often by those of us with our computers and websites…
Although I don’t think we ought to feel guilty – I do know that these people, images and experiences change us… and so they should! Thanks too, for the reminder!