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Branches and Flags

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Apr 2, 2015 | Easter, Faith, Haiti, Mission Trips

On Sunday people waved palm branches. High up in the air, swaying back and forth. Crowded streets on a Sunday, a crowded life on All The Days, and some days I wave the branches and cry “Hosannah!” … and others I’m too busy, too worn down and worn out to even...

Dear Haiti, You’re Beautiful

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Mar 21, 2015 | Beauty, Haiti, Mission Trips

“You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” We’re home. But part of my heart didn’t come back....

Haiti Bound

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Mar 11, 2015 | Haiti, Mission Trips

We’re going back. In less than six hours I’ll be in a car headed to the airport. Two flights later my feet will touch Haiti soil and oh man, I can’t wait to see that blue sky again. It’s hard to believe just over a year ago I held up a piece of...

Gather {Five Minute Friday}

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Mar 5, 2015 | Faith, Five Minute Friday, Haiti, Mission Trips

I feel small. It is the most uncomfortable comfortable. It is unusual and weird and settled inside it feels so right. My eyes aren’t on myself, they’re fixed upward. Whether blue sky or white expanse or the moon shining so bright, I’m stuck on...

The Circle

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Mar 3, 2015 | Community, Faith, Haiti, Mission Trips

Hours before meeting a former-witch doctor and hearing , I found myself crying in the middle of I-don’t-know-where. In that moment, I saw heaven in a way I had only ever imagined. The beauty of it was more than I could put into words and as I stumbled through a...