Jan 10
18
Faith of a mom
Tomorrow I will send my daughter and her husband off to the Dominican Republic for at least a year. She is a new PA (Physician Assistant) and had decided months ago that she wanted to give back in gratitude for all the blessings and skills she has been given. They chose Makarios in the Dominican Republic, a school for 60 Haitian children that has never had a trained medical person on staff. Everything was going smoothly until the earthquake hit Haiti–now not only do we watch TV reports with great interest, but we watch knowing that she will be there on the front lines Wednesday morning, helping to care for the injured at a hospital on the border between the DR and Haiti.
Time for a test of faith.
How can I send them off knowing that they will be surrounded by death and chaos in just a few hours? How can I be happy that they don’t even know where they’ll be sleeping Wednesday night? Or IF they will be sleeping? How do I keep from crying, knowing that every comfort of home will be stripped from them and they will be surviving on adrenalin and faith for who-knows-how-long?
Simply, it’s a God thing. He has prepared my daughter for years, giving her training as an EMT and in an ER before she even went to medical school. She has been trained in medical Spanish, and had two rotations in ERs in Dallas while in school. She is calm under pressure, and has a heart as big as Texas. They were scheduled to leave this week even before the earthquake hit, so He clearly had a plan for her to be there where she is desperately needed. How can I argue with that? We were created to serve others, and those two kids have it figured out.
So here I go, placing my faith in God to protect my little girl who has grown in to this incredible young woman. A woman who is unselfish, steady, generous and kind–a true beauty both inside and out. Where this journey will lead her is unknown, but it will surely make an impact on her that will shape her life and make her stronger. When she was learning to walk I never would have dreamed that she would be walking in to the mission field one day. How blessed I am now to be learning from her.
