Sunday, January 24, 2010

This Is A Beautiful Story

The Des Moines Register hits a home run with this one: From Haiti with love: A new family in Pella

You're free to think this story unfolded solely because of luck and determination.

Matt and Mandy Poulter don't buy it. They are a religious couple, and they see accomplishments as the rewards of faith. They also are bulldogs, who jump into challenges few others would take on.

Last Tuesday, they completed an exhausting odyssey, in which they plucked their new daughter and four other orphans from earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Who's to say if prayers or moxie pulled them through?

The results are the same either way. Five children who otherwise would be sleeping under tarps in a hot, dusty courtyard in Haiti will be bedding down tonight with their new families in Pella.

Please, go read it all.

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