According to Joan, the movement officially began on Sunday, and I don’t think myself to be egoistic to agree. On Sunday, May 17, I did not speak. God really did deliver His message through me. For too long we, as a people, have been self-focused. Most of us do not know how to truly love our neighbors by “giving our lives” for them. We should give our lives, not by dying for one another, but through living to serve one another. We hardly realize that it is the latter that is more difficult.
There is a potential miracle that exists in an ear of corn. One could eat the ear today and be hungry tomorrow. But if one were to plant the 200-400 grains of corn on the cob instead, in a few months he would find 1000-2000 new ears. Our lives are like those seeds. If we invest every bit of ourselves into our own “stomaches” today, our investment will die with us tomorrow and there will be no evidence that we ever existed (read my post on “Signs of Life“). On Sunday, God challenged all of us to plant our lives into one another. To plant ourselves into something greater. To plant our lives into a secure future. To plant our lives into children. The time has come for us to stop eating the seed that represents our own lives and looking for others to devour when we are still hungry. It is time for us to stop looking for a child to help us and look to invest ourselves into them. I believe that God himself has declared an end to exploitation and is calling for a change of hearts.
If I had delivered the message three Sundays ago, as originally planned, it would not have been the right time. Not only was the time right this past sunday and people were ready to receive it, but everything was aligned perfectly with Radio Lumière so that all of Haiti could hear it live, and even Haitians in foreign nations could heard it and responded. Judging by the way that the message was received, I can tell that we are ready for change. But we must keep preaching this gospel to give people the vision for change and confidence to change. We need to preach it all over the country. For that, we need messengers. This Saturday at the “Mwen Se Ayiti Tou” conference (“I Am Haiti Too”), the messengers will be inspired. We have leaders from all corners of Haitian society, from all 10 departments, that are coming to take part. We have chosen leaders that can speak. Leaders that people will listen to. On Saturday their eyes will be open to the truth and on Sunday they will be sent out to preach this gospel. Its time to plant ourselves, invest our lives into Haiti’s neediest children. Our hope as a nation is wrapped up in their very own.
