I am sitting on my veranda, looking out into the night sky, with a colorful star in front of me twinkling with a black background of a sky that is unaffected by city lights. Black, black sky! The only light in view, beyond the lights in our Village Univers, is that of a neighboring house. 

This is something to write about, because just this past Sunday afternoon, sitting in this same rocker in the same position towards my neighbor's home, I watched a man high up in a tree stringing electrical wiring across from another post or tree to his tree, then affixing the wiring to the another tree down the path. All while his young son looked up at him as he completed the wiring for his home. This went on for some time that afternoon. And now, the result is that this family has a light on the roof of their home. Maybe for the first time since they've lived there. Maybe for the first time in Ouanaminthe at this "address". I don't know. What I do know is that this piece by piece progress of electricity is making a difference in the lives of the people in our community. I also know that it is a reminder to me personally to never, ever to take anything for granted, such as electricity. Oh how easy it is for me to take things for granted when I am in the U.S., but now back in Haiti, it is reassuring and refreshing to me to be reminded of this. Reassuring because it reconfirms that I prefer this life in Haiti that I now call "home", and love being called to this life! And refreshing, because I don't want to become desensitized of the needs of our community, ever.

Another example of not taking everyday activities for granted, just this morning I only had a trickle of water come out of my tap in the bathroom for my shower. I started washing my hair in the shower, then moved to the sink to finish rinsing because there was more water coming out of the sink tap - thank you Lord, for water, when so many in my town have none.