“Lord, I just want to say thank you because this morning, I woke up and knew where my children were. This morning my home was still standing. This morning I am not crying because my husband, my child, my brother or sister needs to be rescued from a pile of concrete; because this morning I was able to drink a glass of water, because this morning I was able to turn on the light, because this morning I was able to take a shower, because this morning I was not planning a funeral, but most of all I thank you this morning because I still have life and a voice to cry out for the people of Haiti. We here are truly blessed!!!!!” This is a prayer from Kim Simplis-Barrow, the first lady of Belize.
I can still feel the rough grip on my skin of the gray-haired woman in tears who stretched up from her wheelchair and grabbed my arm.
“Bless you, boy!” she wept. “You’ve given me freedom for the first time in my life!”
It was a wheelchair that had set her free, although I had always thought of my mother’s as a prison. In this moment, however, I came to appreciate how a wheelchair could mean mobility to people who had never had it before. When the first lady of Belize saw this interaction, she walked over to greet us. She had come to a ceremony where the Wheelchair Foundation was presenting 280 chairs to the needy in her nation.
But this week all attention turned to the holocaust in Haiti. We’re sending 600 wheelchairs and as many more as we can with your help–just click on the link: https://rep.iqj.mybluehost.me.
SOURCE: Leader Power Tools
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