a life is a life...

I don't know if you have heard, but there was an earthquake in new Zealand recently and the disaster was bad, as of right now 75 people have died and they have declared it one of the worst disasters to hit new Zealand. to read more on the quake there... click HERE

after watching the news about this and reading a few articles...i have come to realize something... i compare every disaster, natural disaster to Haiti's earthquake of January 2010 and comparison is never a good thing...because all things are relative...

see everything doesn't seem as bad beacuse i believe Haiti was probably the worst natural disaster of our time...how can loosing 75 lives compare to over 200,000...

then i think well maybe its because i was there...and that experience was so intense...but then i think why wouldn't i be more compassionate...because i understand what it is like to be there...to be in that state of crisis...to understand the earth moving beneath you and all the chaos that comes with that...

surely i would have more compassion and not comparison...

surely i would be more like my Father in heaven and LOVE....

surely i would be moved to pray harder because of the empathy in me literally knowing what that experience is like...

but i have found that i don't...

i do at moments, but generally i compare and then i am angry...

HOW COULD ANYONE FORGET HAITI...

do they realize the gravity of what is still going on in Haiti because of that earthquake...

do they realize the shape this country was even in before the disaster...

i want to say stop looking at this disaster and be reminded of Haiti's and that it is still struggling in ways most of us could never even fathom...

i know it is wrong of me to feel this way in a sense...for the Lord tells us to have compassion on one another, to pray and show HIS LOVE...

see whether it is 75 or 200,000.... 1 is 1 and a life is a life... i pray for more compassion...but at the same time i think it is okay for me to be angry...

of course, only if its a JUST anger for the nation of Haiti because the situation it is in...

most of it's struggle imposed on the country not because of Haitians, but the countries around them for years taking advantage of them...

despite their strength...

all this to say...sometimes i don't understand my inner reactions to the disasters i see in the world...

i miss Haiti...

i cry for Haiti...

i pray for Haiti...

my heart is for Haiti...

but...

A LIFE IS A LIFE...no matter how many....

God's timing

Check out this recent blog i wrote on the MUCH Ministries website....

its just some thoughts i wanted to share...

CLICK HERE

Prayer Requests

I have touched base with some of you, but know that lists & messages help me to remember things, so no doubt it is probably that way for you as well.

i know we all have things going on and junior and i pray for you daily...but i also know sometimes its great to know the specific needs. Feel free to tell us what is going on in your life...we would love to hear.

We thought we would tell you 4 specific things that Junior & I would love our family & friends to be in prayer with us about...

1. Junior & I will be in ATL tuesday for our interview with immigration at noon. It is the last step in the Greencard process that we have been working on since August of last year. Pray with us for FAVOR & the right person to interview us!!!

2. Junior's sister Marie runs an orphanage, school & church in Haiti and for the last several weeks has been getting phone calls threatening her that she will be kidnapped for ransom, $100,000 to be exact. She runs her ministry mainly through donation and definitely does not have that kind of money. pray with us for PROTECTION, PROVISION, & PEACE... no fear.

3. Poutchino- that the right family comes forward to adopt him and that he can get an extention on his visa for the process--- that he is completely healed from the brain damage that has happened because of the hydrocephalis. An interested family has come forward this week- pray for their descernment and clarity in the decision making to have him join their family. FAVOR & PROVISION in all of the things revolving around this situation.

4. Junior & I along with anyone willing are trying to rebuild his mothers home in haiti. it has been more than a year since the earthquake and his mother, in her 60's and living with arthrisis is still sleeping outside. We hope to fix her home before we go to visit this summer... hopefully even before. Pray with us for the FUNDS to be able to do this...

Okay- i could probably talk all day about each of these topics...so i hope i didnt give more information that you need...but would love for you to join us in prayer.

thank you for all you do and how you each have been a part of our lives...Junior & I are blessed to know you, call you our friends & family.

may LOVE & GRACE be abundant in you today.

Natasha & Junior Jovin