Being that this is my 1st time to share my thoughts on a blog I thought it was only appropriate that I start it off by talking about the terrible tragedy in Haiti. My mind can hardly process the images I see and the stories of suffering that I hear.
Why we ask would a loving God allow this to happen? Is Haiti cursed as some people would like to believe? I personally don't think it has anything to do with a curse or that the Lord doesn't love the people of Haiti any less than any one of us. I think the earthquake happened because it was a natural order of things. The earth is constantly changing and will continue to change over the course of our lifetime.
I don't think anybody is ever going to be immune to tragedy. Sometimes it happens on a more personal level and other times it happens to the masses. But I do believe with all my heart that no matter what the circumstance the Lord will always bring good out of the bad. We're already seeing it with the mass outpouring of prayers, money given, people and organizations going to Haiti to give of their time, talents and love. It will take time but this country will rise from the ashes again.
I've seen so many examples over my lifetime of circumstances that looked so desperate and hopeless get turned around. It's hard for us to imagine what we would do if it was our own lives that were affected by tragedy but it's during these times that the Lord brings out a strength and grace that we just don't normally have unless we go through it. There will come a day when we will understand all of this. Right now we can only see such a small glimps of what God is doing in this world and in our lives but we can trust that He will be with us when things seem hopeless.
1 Corinthians 13:12-13
Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely. Just as God knows me completely.
Three things will last forever- faith, hope and love- and the greatest of these is love.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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