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John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books , including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Coronavirus and Christ

More by this author

John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books , including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Coronavirus and Christ

Jesus in Haiti

After the Earthquake

Do you consider safety, or your health,

A sign from me?

I am not awed by might, nor struck by wealth,

Or poverty.

O, I am struck! And crushed. Buried, I wince,

And dying, pray,

A sympathetic Priest in Port-au-Prince,

Even today.

But there, in those United States the boot

Is on my face.

“Saul, Saul,” I ask, “Why do you persecute

And not embrace?”

Your King, I lift my arms to you in peace

And patient grief;

And summon now to Haiti enemies

For my relief.