2000 Luke Lights

October 2014

Traveling to Haiti with my little guy to distribute 2000 lights in his big brother’s name was powerful and poignant and painful in ways no words can describe. Perhaps these photos can give you some idea. Darkness can’t hide from just one little light. Imagine what thousands can do.

Imagine what it feels like for a mom missing her son to see kids turn a “Luke” light on.

You can’t. I hope none of you ever have to.

But I hope these photos make you smile (and remember Luke’s smile) with the realization that you’ve helped bring light to where there was darkness—in more ways that one.

Update 2020:

We have gone back to Haiti as a family and with friends several times now to share Luke's Light since this album was first published. With the passing years, the feelings get even more profound. Would we ever be standing in a Haitian village, amid rubble still left from the 2010 earthquake, in an orphanage with dozens of barefoot little singers, with mamas struggling to put food on the table… were it not for losing Luke? I'll never know. What I know for sure? — These little lights saved me.