Monthly Archives: December 2013

A few days ago, Alberto, one of our boys, came to our house when he should have been in school.
We asked him why he was not in school, and he responded: “I have no shoes; they are broken.” To go to school in Haiti, you need to have a pair of black shoes. After checking and discovering that he was telling us the truth, we went to buy him a new pair of black shoes. We never before realized how much a pair of good shoes can change a person’s life. On that same day, he went to church with us because he had a pair of good shoes. He even behaved differently and was more responsible. Now he seeks different company. He feels important and worth something. A pair of shoes has given him dignity that to some degree had been taken away by his poverty.

To celebrate the First Sunday of Advent, we went to St. Michael’s Parish. We like to attend liturgy there because the whole Mass is in Creole. Before we went into the place of worship (because they don’t have a Church), we noticed many people gathered outside dressed in purple. They really enter the liturgical season even by what they wear. We each said to ourselves, “Too bad we don’t have purple on for today.” We wish we could share with you a video we took of the choir singing; it is so beautiful. Our Creole teacher, Madam Omanie, is the choir director.