Today, I am going to ask you to pray for the bigger picture in Haiti. Instead of looking into the eyes of the individual children, I want you to consider the country, as a whole. For those of us watching and reading about the electoral process, (or the lack thereof), it has been a long, drawn out drama. Since November, when the process began to elect a new President and have the current President, Rene Preval, step down, there has been the initial vote, exposure of extensive fraud/cohersion in the election, (Preval's nephew and candidate used fraudulent means to gain his votes), intervention of outside sources to enforce a democratic vote, a recount, emergenge of new run-off candidates, (popular singer Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly and former First Lady of Haiti, Mirlande Manigat), the run-off election and finally, the outcome, (Sweet Micky won). To add to the drama of the above process was the return of two formal rulers of the country, Jen-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Many Haitian believe justice has been served in the election of Sweet Micky as President. They want change and chances are, change is forthcoming.
Will it be the change that progresses Haiti? That question has yet to be answered and it is worthy of our prayer. So, please join me in praying for the newley elected President and the transitions that lay ahead for Haiti.
Day 5 of 40 days of prayer....please join us!
