Next Steps - to be continued

As I prepare to continue my journey around the country, I'm very sad and torn about leaving the border. Today, after spending almost two hours working with several families from Haiti and Venezuela, trying to answer their questions, figure out what they needed for the next steps in this perilous journey for asylum, trying to welcome them to this horrid country, trying to be at least one immediate kind face, I thought about how I'd really love to continue doing this for the rest of my life.

But then I thought about the hot weather, the tornado, the lack of organic food choices

Fearful of Me

I think this is probably the hardest job I've ever had: greeting refugees coming over the boarder thru the new cpb one app.

First of all, knowing the hardships they have faced and triumphed over. Second knowing what is still on their plate while also knowing the plate they imagine is not necessarily the plate they will be served.

Then of course my struggles trying to communicate with my poor Spanish &/or non-existent Creole.

But probably the hardest struggle and most heart-breaking part is getting people to trust me to walk them two blocks to the bus station or another half block to the Welcome Center or another two blocks to the shelter. It's unimaginable what they must have experienced to be so fearful of me.