The Letter

Well it seems like everything here in Jacmel is ran on the letter. Meaning you need to have paperwork for everything. Where isn’t it like that? But the strange thing here is that I get asked to write the letters all the time. Who am I to write letters getting permission to do things to state that something is for real? Well that is what it is. One would think that it would have to be an official whom you get permission but then I realize what I have been asked to do it just write letter petitioning for help and aid to get jobs done here in Jacmel. Well I can do that one.
I get a call early May 1st morning from a friend asking if I can come over to help him write and print out a letter. I say sure let me get ready and I will be there. I show up at his house to help him write a letter. I am thinking it will be a letter petitioning for aid and what I come to find out is different.
I am helping him write a reference letter for his friends. Ok, I’m in, here is the back story. My friend is a pastor of a local church. He married a couple. The woman was from the Bahamas and the man is from Haiti. The problem is that the gentleman is trying to move to the Bahamas to be with his wife. They were married right before the earthquake on December 24th, 2009. I help the pastor write and print out the reference letter and then I head out on my way to check out some May 1st festivities.
The day goes by and the next day.
Then two days later, I thought about what I did. I thought about how, I helped the situation and I helped bring a family together who is struggling because they are separated. I know it was just a letter and it seems like nothing much to me to type a few words in a program and print it out. But because I was able to help out the pastor who admitted to me was not good at using a computer, I was able to help this family. That was my AH HA, moment here. It does not matter how small you may think what you are doing is; to the other person you are helping it can be fantastic.
Thus, far of all the things I have done here. That letter meant the most to me. Thank you God for letting me help.