Haiti, Pat Robertson, Titanic

Imagine the Titanic crashes into the iceberg and you are the first ones there on an adjacent yacht. You watch as tons of people are jumping into the frigid water hanging onto pieces of pool furniture or they are treading water unsuccessfully. And then you have the resources or at least some to save many but part of your leadership on the yacht says….”hey let’s evaluate this situation. How did they get into this predicament anyhow?” Meanwhile, you continue to watch as people are shouting ‘help me, help me”…you start to ignore the conversation at the helm which is comprised of a very old and out of touch ‘should have been retired years ago’ captain and just start throwing the life preservers over board…People are screaming, drowning and you watch as the team in their tidy whitey captain outfits stand talking about history, or how scientifically they could have avoided this very real disaster.



Two weeks ago I was spending most of my waking hours focused on the atrocities toward second born daughters in parts of India, where the girls are killed after birth as infants because of a dowry system that is outlawed but still very much in practice. I was determined to try to figure out how to stop this practice single handedly from my subdivision home in Cary, NC. I was also really really upset about the female sex selected abortions there along with the fact that now young men can’t even find brides because there is a clear discrepancy in the balance between men and women. There just aren’t enough brides. Then I saw research that said that the infanticide as well as the female sex selected abortion leads to increase in prostitution as well as sex trafficking. Many young women are kidnapped, brought to Mumbai’s red light district from Nepal or even from schoolhouses in Mumbai and then forced to be prostitutes. So, I called a woman named Anna Belle Illien who has an adoption agency in GA dealing with India. Through my conversation with her and my experiences with feeling overwhelmed before about issues in Ethiopia, China, Uganda, Guatemala…I came to a conclusion. I can’t save the entire world.



I have my organization MOTHER THE WORLD. But have really accepted that I am a first responder. I have to be there to pull drowning children, people, out of water, give them mouth to mouth and save as many lives as possible. Should we be analyzing why we hit the iceberg or how we could have avoided disaster or why there is evil in the world? SURE! But when do we have the luxury for that? NOT NOW! There are too many orphans in the world to be mothered…too many kids without families in America and too many people to mentor…I just don’t have the time now while the world is in this condition to spend my precious time over analyzing history.



This week Pat Robertson said this about Haiti:

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about," Robertson said Tuesday on his 700 Club show. "They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said 'We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.' True story. And so the devil said, 'Ok it's a deal.' And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got something themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another."

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2010/01/haiti_the_devil_and_pat_roberton.html?sid=ST2010011304487

Honestly, I love Jesus so much and don’t want to get in an argument right now with Pat Robertson so I will just say this “SHUT UP AND THROW OVER A LIFE JACKET!!! WE CAN HAVE THE CONVERSATION WHEN THE TWO YEAR OLD IS PULLED OUT FROM UNDER THE 3 TON SLAB!!!”

My girlfriends that are all mothers were there patching up wounds, delivering babies with guaze from the CVS. This is what we should do. AND I disagree that the people don’t know Jesus. If they are all so overcome by the devil why were some of the reports and blog postings these:


“Things are really bad here. The palace fell down, the hospital, the cathedral, everything. “The city is dark and the people keep singing for Jesus and saying ‘Hallelujah’.

http://www.theworld.org/2010/01/13/international-response-to-haiti/

MS. ANNE ROSE SCHOEN: What they do right now, they put tables and chairs on the streets and they sit there and they wait. They don’t want to go into the houses because they have damage and they are scared that they will crumble down which is true. When you have an aftershock then everybody shouts “Jesus” and “Please help me God”. It is a very eerie situation.

"People were screaming 'Jesus, Jesus' and running in all directions," said Reuters reporter Joseph Guyler Delva from the capital Port-au-Prince. "It's total chaos."

Apparently the missionaries who have been visiting Haiti for years have penetrated into the hearts of the people. I stand corrected! Jesus himself has penetrated into the hearts of these people. But that isn’t even the point either. Do we interview people before throwing life jackets and say…if you are ‘saved’ then I, Christian person here will save you.” I don’t remember seeing that anywhere in the bible…In fact, let’s even save the devil worshipers and tell them about Jesus once we stitch up the gash in their foreheads. Jesus came to save. We are His hands and feet. ‘Shut up! And throw the life jacket in.”

I have settled into the fact that MOTHERING THE WORLD isn’t going to mean that I can save everyone or that I have the luxury of spending my time over analyzing the cause while newborns in Haiti don’t have formula and their mothers were just squashed by a 5 story building. Yes, adoption legislation can and will be changed but I am determined not to get caught up these days in taking a microscope to the Titanic when people are still crying out HELP ME I AM DROWNING….it is just not the time. They are calling out for Jesus and we are called to be HIS hands and feet…let’s be intentional with that and careful not to be the mouth piece for something that isn’t of Christ. Hands and feet…the body, working, responding, loving, caring, not judging…Christ is MIGHTY TO SAVE but I don’t believe He would have stood by ignoring the drowning people while preoccupied with a Historic conversation about the French…..