The January 12th earthquake claimed the lives of 3 colleagues.  I am shedding tears as I am typing these words. I wish I did not have to write the following names under these circumstances.

Yes, we lost:

Marlene Joseph : News Anchor and radio show Producer. I saw her around 3:30PM that Tuesday. Along with Gertrude Joseph, all three we were on our way to University Lumiere. She left us to go back to the station to retrieve her cell phone which she forgot to pick up earlier. The youngest of the three of us, she had her life ahead of her. She wanted to get married, build her own house, graduate from college and travel abroad. Alas! So hard to believe.

Ginor Desplumes :  Programming director, he ate lunch with us that Tuesday. He was cracking jokes, discussing society and politics with us around the table as usual. I wonder if he knew that it was our last meal together.

Marcellus Jude : We share the same name: Jude. He too is gone without saying farewell to his “détente dominicale” audience.

The disaster claimed the lives of 3 friends, 3 valiant companions in ministry. We will forever miss their smile, their creativity,  their love for God, their devotion to the ministry of Radio Lumiere.

We probably will never comprehend the sovereignty of God, the way he does what he wants when he wants it. We may never understand the mystery, the abruptness, and the apparent finality of death. However, we know for sure that God is love, that he is just and that he does not deceive us. His promises, he keeps. We will see our colleagues again at the great gathering. We will then sing “Hosanna in the highest.”

Valorous and valiant warriors, you have gone ahead to meet your lord, let it be so!

We who are left behind, let us carry on the fight the good fight so the light may shine throughout Haiti and beyond!

Rest in Peace in the arms of the father.  It will be unmatched joy when we see again.

Who are they?  Their brief biography?

Read the article “Death, you are not welcome" an extract from “Sel, Lumiere et Parfum” (Salt, light and perfume)

Read also 1 Thess. 4:13  through 5:11 and 2 Thess 2:1-12