Child of Haiti

A child shall be the light of the world is the message of Christmas Eve. As I get older I find this message grows clearer. Children, especially young ones, are not locked in the dark prison of the mind as many of us adults are. As I walking from my car to a store today I saw a young child that was locked in the car while her mother was shopping. I gave her a smile and she gave me even a bigger smile back. No fear in this child are eyes of this stranger smiling at her.

When I was in Haiti, ( Haiti Return To Slavery or Freedom) at a Sunday liturgy my eyes met the eyes of a young girl going back to her seat after bring up an offertory gift. She gave me a smile which I returned. It turns out she was sitting at the end of an aisle a few rows ahead of me. Haitians are very poor, living in the poorest nation in the world, yet at Sunday mass everyone is dressed up in their best clothes as she was. She kept turning around in her chair smiling at me. I returned the smile and after Mass went up to her and her mother and asked, without using words, if I could take the girls picture. The mom said yes and she was glad to have her picture taken. I probably will never see her again but her smile lives on in my memory.

The last few days I took some pictures at my son’s house full of 12 children. One was a silly one of my granddaughter and her cousin. Silly pictures come naturally to young children who are not worried what people think of them. The picture is below.

The child in the manger is the light of the world, as it was, is now and will be.

Christmas Cousins

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