Thanks Kathleen for making this easier. Coming back from Haiti to California is the true culture shock. I`ve been on many of these kinds of trips, to South America, Mexico and Africa. This one was the most profound. So when people ask me (a hundred times), "How was it?", I always find myself wanting to say "Awesome" or "Great" or "Incredible" or some other cliche`d response, because, in fact, it was awesome and great and incredible. But what does that all mean when, for most of the trip, you`re face to face with "incredible" poverty and "great" barriers to progress and "awesome" feelings of guilt and inadequacy when trying to share the Gospel, or you have to leave some still hungry? I feel like it all came into focus for me on this trip. It was the "awesome, incredible, great" Grace that God gives in the face of everything that is uncomfortable, or that doesn`t smell right or is unsightly, or any feeling of inadequacy or irrelevancy. His  "great" Grace enveloped and permeated and oozed at every moment, so that I was never repulsed, or defeated or anxious, but rather eager to go again and help even more. It was an "awesome" experience, and it will be "incredible" when I learn that I can experience the same "great" Grace here and serve Him here with the same eagerness.    david nelson