In today's BreakPoint commentary, Mark Earley tells the amazing story of Father Rick Frechette, who has spent ten years ministering to the poorest of the poor in Haiti.

Here's the part that I found most moving and significant:

Pastor Rick tells the story of a boy that he saw set on fire by thugs. Before he could reach him, the boy was dead, but he got buckets of water and extinguished the flames anyway. Then, he says, “we put him in the back of the truck, and do what we always do. Have a prayer right there. To make a counter-witness by our own behavior.”

He reports that the gang that set him on fire stood by and watched. And the boy’s mother—even overwhelmed by grief—was grateful for this act of love.

“It made her able to live with it,” Pastor Rick says. “It’s like God sent someone to help her, like it restored her faith in humanity again...I call it the countersign.”

Father Rick explains it this way: “The terrible thing that’s in front of you, you hurry, and offset it right away. Before what happens is too taxing and too poisonous...Sometimes with horrible things, you really feel there is nothing you can do...You’re just useless. But over time, you start seeing that to do the right thing no matter what has tremendous power.”

Read more here. And think about how you can offer a countersign of grace when you encounter horrible things in your own life.