So Much Beauty

This is a picture of me with Jesse and Valinda. We're sitting by the side of a path, just behind the Toddler House. Yes, it's the same view that we have from the Toddler House... breathtaking, isn't it?! Sometimes, I like to take Valinda here and she likes to throw rocks down the cliff. I guess it's just nice for her to get outside and have a little change of scenery.

Today, I went down to Port au Prince with Molly and a few other people, to pick up two babies from an orphanage down there. They'd called here and asked if we would take the babies, cuz they're both HIV positive and they weren't sure what to do with them. So we went down to pick them up and they were both so sick with fevers. I was holding one, on the way home, and he was so hot, he was burning my hands. He ended up having a fever of a hundred and three. We gave him some medicine as soon as we got home, and then I gave him a nice cool bath. He fell asleep really quickly after that.
We've gotten quite a few new kids here, in the past couple weeks. Please continue to pray for these little babies, that their health would strengthen and that the would develop properly. People regularly bring kids to our door, hoping we'll take them in. We make sure we only take them if they really need it though. Sometimes the parents just don't want to take care of the children, but because we only have so much room here, we can only take the ones that really need it. It's kindof strange to be so used to seeing mothers and fathers sitting inside our front gate, with their children, and waiting to be seen by Dixie. It just makes me remember what a poor country I'm living in. It really is very sad and overwhelming at times, but I'm so glad that I can be part of the hope that God is bringing to Haiti!