Compassion in Haiti

In 2007 I lost two pregnancies at very early stages, and since that time I wanted to find a way to honor and remember them.  For the longest time, I planned a tattoo.  I’m a little on the fence about tattoos.  They’re fine for others but I’m not sure what I think about them for myself.  For me, they’d be a little rebellious.  I think that’s why the tattoo idea never really settled with me – it felt weird to commemorate pregnancies with rebellion.

Last year – sometime in May, I think – Compassion had sent a group of bloggers to India.  I fell in love.  I wanted to sponsor ALL the children.  Understandably, Tahd wasn’t quite on board with that!  I worked my way down from ALL the children to two – two children to honor the two miscarriages we experienced.

It was hard to pick.  There were so many children.  I literally sat on my couch and cried over all of them.  Eventually I settled on two boys from India, both a little older than Gabe.  With that, our family started the special journey of loving and praying for two children we’ve never met and may never meet.

Compassion is active all over the world, Haiti included.  When Haiti experienced their devastating earthquake, the Compassion children (all the children, really) were some of my first thoughts.  They already live in such poverty.  That this earthquake could threaten the little source of stability they have seems so cruel to me.

If you feel moved to donate financially to the relief efforts in Haiti, please consider Compassion as a potential recipient of your giving.  This brief letter details a (very) little bit about Compassion and some of the reasons I love them.  The biggest reason I love them, though, is because they connected our family with two little boys whose letters and drawings to us warm our hearts and put smiles on our faces more than we expected or deserve.