Haiti's Broken Covenant: A Third World Phenomenon the Rebirth of a Nation

By Roger Duclos

The author, Roger Duclos, labors deeply as he reflects on the state of his homeland Haiti. This book does not contain any war stories or sensationalism, nor will you find any person or groups being diminished in anyway. The purpose for this document is to uplift his compatriots, brothers and sisters around the world by sharing concrete insight and divine solutions to our homelands conditions. The reader should approach this book with humility and tolerance, because it is written in the spirit of compassion and love. Roger assures the reader this is not his inspiration and he ask that all glory and praise be to God Almighty for His merciful grace.

May Gods kindness and blessings be poured upon you for all the days of your lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 17, 2008
• ISBN: 9781462815999

Roger Duclos

The author, Roger Duclos, labors deeply when he reflects on the state of his homeland Haiti. He has had an in-depth revelation and wants to share it with all of his brothers and sisters who cares about Haiti and wants take part in Haiti’s redemption. Roger has written in the past the book Amazing Grace and has shared with the reader his experience, strength and hope. In the spirit of love he has done it again, and loves to hear from his readers. He may be contacted at [e-mail].

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

A MOTHER’S LABORING REFLECTIONS

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

REFERENCES

Biblical references:

New International Version, Bold Line Edition

Scripture quotations are taken from the ‘Authorized

King James Version of the Bible.’

Other references:

Spiritual Victory in Haiti, Joel R Jeune:

< http://www.etpv.org/1998/haiti.html> (July 01, 2008)

American’s Struggle with Religion’s Role at Home and Abroad

The author’s listed are:

Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the people & the press. Melissa Rogers, Executive Director of the Pew Forum on Religion and public life. < http://www.adherents.com/relUSA.html> (July 01, 2008)

Europe and Religion: The European Library.

< http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org> (July 01, 2008)

Religion in Africa: World Book Encyclopedia

Steven, Kaplan, ‘The Africanization of Missionary Christianity.’

History and Typology Journal of Africa 16(3) references January 2008.

(July 01, 2008)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and foremost glory to God, ‘Almighty!’

This book is dedicated to my brothers and sisters and to my precious homeland Haiti.

I thank my family and friends who have supported me in writing this book.

Special thanks to my spiritual teachers and counselors, Pastors G. V. Lewis, Ludence Robinson, Senior Pastor Arthur Jackson III, the entire staff, and family of the Antioch Baptist Church of Carol City.

To the reader:

I pray that you approach this book with an open mind and with special attention to the message. This book is written in the spirit of love because of my affection for you and my love of Haiti.

There are no war stories or sensationalism in this book, nor will you find any person or group being diminished in any way. The purpose of this document is to uplift all Haitians and to look forward to the better days that await us.

May God’s kindness and mercy be poured upon us in order that we may inherent God’s intended blessings?

PREFACE

I am a fifty-two year old Haitian male raised in the United States since the age of twelve, and very concern about my homeland Haiti. I consider myself a good person and am certain of the fact that you also qualify as such. But I was so far from God, I would have been eternally lost were it not for His grace. On a glorious Saturday afternoon I made the choice to accept Christ. Since that day, I am being transformed as the Holy Spirit chips away at my old self. He has changed me and opened my eyes to the truth. God grants us everlasting mercy by leaving the door ajar for each of us willing to accept the truth.

That truth is Jesus Christ.

Let’s not be followers of Adam, disobedient and self-centered. Instead, let us choose to become followers of Christ, because that’s what it will take for Haiti to be delivered. Until the day all Haitians can love one another; we will not be able to change our current condition.

I use to view Haiti’s situation as hopeless; but it has been revealed to me that with God, all things are possible. I love Haiti and want my homeland to experience the gentleness and the giving nature of our God. The only way for us to overcome our present circumstances is by surrendering to God’s will. Only at the cross can we break the generational curses from our past which keeps us from enjoying God’s best.

As you can tell from my writing, I am a born again Christian. This does not mean I am better than you, nor am I being self-righteous. Brothers and sisters! I ask you to keep an open mind; no, I implore you to overlook the writer of these words. For I assure you, this is not my inspiration. It is God who deserves all the glory as it was in the beginning, as it is now, and will be forever.

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A MOTHER’S LABORING REFLECTIONS"

I have been free and independent since 1804. To the forefathers, I will be forever grateful. Men like Jean Jacques Dessalines, Toussaint L’ouverture, Alexandre Petion, Boiront Tonnerre, Capois L’amort, and many others. I am so proud to have given birth to such brave children, because while the rest of the world was being devastated by the ungodly practice of slavery, I was freed from tyranny by the valiant efforts of my sons and daughters. This was not easy. They fought for decades and realized that it would be better to die rather then be treated as sub-human. While in many parts of the world black men were being sold like cattle. Enchained and bounded, sometimes tortured so badly, a man’s flesh would be ripped to shreds by another human being’s evil nature. My children, who were born free, realized that it was ungodly to succumb to such cruelty. Women being separated from their children and sold as property! Raped, tortured and murdered at the slightest sign of defiance. Not even our children were spared. It became clear in order to save me they would rather risk extinction. Indeed, rather than to endure such an existence, they chose L’iberte ou la mort, Liberty or death. They staged a revolt, and by the grace of God successfully became the first black nation to have abolished slavery. The century that followed I watched as they struggle with the toils of life, but did so, free an independent.

The early nineteen hundreds were difficult, but I still endured.

My children still possessed strength, but continued to struggle because of their failure, or inability to recognize their freedom was not earned, but was a gift from God. In the mid nineteen-hundreds I was still a proud mother, because they took good care of me; I was so beautiful the International Community named me La Perle Des Antilles, The Pearl of the Antilles.

The Creator bestowed upon me such natural beauty. Foliage so green and vivid the heavens could not help but smile at God’s wonderment. The air, so crisp and clean; the elders of my children were able to enjoy misty evenings by camp-fire, where they shared folklore from their precious motherland Africa. My waters-ways were so clean, there was an abundance of fish life, and my creator made it so that I could feed entire villages with my natural resources. At night, God’s beauty was manifested by the moon, no need for light, because the glare from the stars and the moon illuminated my entire body.

Coming into the 20th century is as if I had been in a coma and the late 1900’s passed me by. I have now awakened and find myself in such pain. I hurt deeply when I realize the degree of dysfunction my family finds itself. My children are not