Rain

Rain.

When I think about the rain I think about home. I think about how much joy and peace rain can bring. I love everything about rain. I love how I can smell it before it comes, how the energy flows through you right before the fat drops start to fall, how there will be a visible line that you can see where the rain has fallen in montreat and not in black mountain. I think about laying on the tennis courts with PK and Elizabeth in the summer, sitting on my pourch watching the lightning flash across the sky. I remember how the storms would scare me and later Levi and how I would hold him to try to block out the sound in the youth center. Rain brings mud and I've had a lot of fun with mud in my past. I love rain, always have and always will.

It has rained once every day for 12 days now. Haitians do not love rain, in fact they are scared of it. If one drop is felt then there will be no one on the streets. This fear of rain was very strange to me at first, I'm the one who likes to run outside to meet it. It's a different story here. It's a fact that there is less the 1% of trees left in Haiti. This means erosion. On the mountains there is no top soil to soak in the rain, it's just rock. The water runs down the mountian into the vallies where people live, TONS of people. EVERY TIME IT RAINS IN HAITI SOMEONE WILL DIE. Every time the rain falls. Haitians are scared of rain because it kills here. It runs from the mountains straight into the city. There are holes in the streets that are more or less like caves. These holes fill with water. If you are caught in the rain it's better to stay put and not risk falling into one of them. If you listen to the radio you can here about the deaths the next day.

I'm asking you to pray. This weather is very very odd and bad. It has poured every day for 12 days now. Rain, I think how something so good could be so bad all at the same time and don't know what to think. I don't play in the rain here, it's unheard of.

Rain, just something for you to think about. How it's different here then at home.