(Originally posted October 12, 2018)
I posted this short excerpt from a journal entry in July on my facebook page, but also wanted to add it to my blog. This moment was during a music camp trip to Haiti in July - I was translating for a team there when the following occurred;
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Emma is a college aged young woman who was one of the members of the June 2018 team of Sound Affects that was working in Loma de Cabrera, Dominican Republic, and Tiroly, Haití. We were in the middle of a very hot morning, in Tiroly, giving a music camp to 99 Haitian children and teens, when Emma looks at me and says,
“I can’t breathe.”
I assumed she was just expressing how hot it was under the simple tin roof that topped the cement block church. I quickly realized that she wasn’t just using that wording to talk about the heat. She was really struggling to catch a breath. I waved her over and she came to where Ana and I were sitting and observing. I began to fan her with a notebook that I had nearby and Ana got some ice and wrapped it in a napkin to wipe along her neck, arms, and legs to cool her down. Ana and I began to pray, each one quietly, and within minutes, Emma began to breathe more easily and I looked up to see Ana’s face and she was crying and thanking God.
I asked Emma if she was feeling better and she told me that she was. She said, “I’m not religious or anything, but I could feel that you two really wanted me to come through it."
"I felt something happen in me.”
Later, I asked Ana why she cried...if she had seen something or felt something specific. She told me that she had felt the power of the Holy Spirit leave her hands to minister to Emma’s lungs. She couldn’t stop talking about how merciful and good God is to us.
