Heaven to earth

I have links to Haiti. My college roommate is a nurse plus more at an orphanage. Friends from a North Carolina church flew in the morning before the first earthquake and are pitching in wherever they can, delivering babies, food, love. A classmate here worked in Haiti for the last two summers and reminded me of their culture which is infested with witch doctors.
In his blog post with Sojourners, Tony Compolo reported, "Haiti’s former dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, was a voodoo witchdoctor, and when he was driven from power it was widely rumored that he offered an infant boy as a blood sacrifice to Satan, and cursed the country with an evil spell to bring disasters and suffering upon the Haitian people." As Tony later says, it strange to believe in such sorcery but the Haitians do. So how does their mindset change in the midst of the current chaos and destruction?

Love.

And though simply put, we humans have a lot to learn about loving thoroughly, fully, unconditionally. I'm grateful for my fiends being God's hands and feet in Haiti right now. I pray we will respond in a helpful and meaningful way. But more than anything, I hope we're in the way just the right way for God to use us to love.
May it be true in Haiti, Helena, or on Hawthorne Rd.

Words have not come easily for me concerning Haiti and all it represents or is. But somehow, this song/poem came to me as I sang the final line of the praise song "Shout to the North."

He's the Lord of Heaven and Earth

What does this mean when people are suffering? What does this mean in chaos and pain? How is there heaven right here on earth when everything seems so insane?

Heaven can’t be that far away.
Heaven is meant to be here.
Heaven can’t be a distant place
Since heavenly love draws us near.

What does it mean for him to be Lord? What does it mean to be all knowing? What does it mean to have all of the power if all of the might is not showing?

Heaven can’t be a stranger.
Heaven knows me and you.
Heaven can’t be just an idea.
Heaven must live in me, too.

What does this mean for our lives today? What does it matter to me? If He’s the Lord as He says that He is, can’t heaven to earth come easily?

Heaven can’t be for just a few.
Heaven needs my own skill.
Heaven won’t be stopped by sin.
Heaven on earth is His will.