This morning I started the day weeping. The Haiti numbers did it to me: 4,000 humans beings and 6 latrine toilets. Six. I trust that God is there. I know this to be true in my very core. And I choose to believe that somehow, even with the numbers of 4,000 and 6 that there is some divine order, some bigger picture that my pea brain cannot wrap around. But, how do I sit and drink my coffee and fret about all the many possible things I could do in the day with those numbers of 4,000 and 6?
Well, the phone rang and somebody asked if I would meet with their son. A full-grown son who has just gotten out of chemical dependence treatment--for the 5th time. "Of course," I say.
I put him to work with me laying stone ringed around my newly placed storage tank. We work and talk. No job, no money, no idea about what to do....As the stories come, I realize that this is what I do with the numbers of 4,000 and 6. I look for small numbers close by.
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