Greetings.one and all:
Sunday Dec 11 finds things pretty calm and a bit of normal life on the streets as people went to church or went out and about doing other chores. Yesterday the streets were busy and line ups formed in the grocery stores and gas stations as people took advantage of the calm to stock shelves, Christmas shop and fill up the vehicles. I had no real reason to go out so stayed at Hope House although I do have a little bit of "house fever" having been holed up here all week. No one knows what to expect tomorrow, but I won't be surprised if we have more demonstrations although I pray that the calm we have had over the past several days continues. Everyone seems to be taking a break from the to do of last week...even the radio stations ...as I have been hearing more music than news throughout the day.

Unfortunately the Christmas elves will be not be to make their planned trip to Haiti to help with the Christmas gifts, so I took advantage of the quiet to get all of them organized and to make sure there were enough for each group of students. It worked out just right and now again I pray for calm so that we can hand them out at the end of the week as scheduled. Joel has been a good right hand man lugging the big boxes here and there for me.

I called Marie to check in with her and all was going well with her. While chatting we arranged for her to come with her driver to pick up the Christmas gifts for her kids and a few other items assigned to her .....one of them was some cans of span and Vienna sausage. She was so amazed and was remarking how the Lord provides at just the right time. She gave her last can of meet to a neighbour this AM, whom she invited to her house for an egg as he was feeling weak from hunger and Marie offered to feed him. She gave that last can of meet to him to take home and he was so grateful that he would have something to be able to feed his whole family....to him it was like a feast she was providing him. It once again just gives one pause to say THANKS for the bounty in our lives and I say thanks to those of you who continue to suppor the Lazarus Project through gifts of funds, gifts in kind and your gifts of time....we would not be able to help those we do withour your continued support.

Hope you are enjoying this Advent Sunday.....Debbie