Haiti

If you have a chance, go read this blog post at the Apparent Project. I randomly discovered it through a post on Ravelry.  They are working in Haiti, and the writer gives what I think is the best “reason” for the disaster.  Unlike many Christians, who are saying that this is God’s wrath on a sinful group of people, he makes the case for a a loving God who would rather take his anger out on Himself than make His children suffer.  The author believes that if anything, the earthquake was a consequence of human’s constant election of evil as king, rather than good….

Whether or not that is true, I am happy to see another believer preaching some good news.

He also gives some advice on how to help people in Haiti RIGHT NOW- the best way to put your donations to good use.

I am still trying to figure out a way that we can help- nobody has a lot of money to throw at anything right now, and besides, donating money does feel a little useless.

It’s easy to not think about these disasters in other parts of the globe, since they are far from home and bad things happen every day.  I was tempted to forget about it, until I realized that a bunch of people and friends were supposed to travel to Haiti next week for missions- only to have their trip canceled.  The reason they were going was because one of the families is in the process of adopting a little girl and they’ve been trying to get her out of the country for years.  She was injured in the earthquake, and a few of our friends are still going to fly there to see what they can do.  One of my best friend’s husband is going, and he doesn’t know when they’ll be back.   They have literally no place to stay there, and they’ve been told it will be very dangerous.
(I’m not really sure of all the details, so this is just the gist of it)

So I guess the point of all this is that I’m praying for Haiti, and I hope everyone else is.  Don’t forget that they are no different than us- they didn’t ask to be born into a corrupt country and we didn’t ask to be born into a free nation.  We are very blessed here and we should not take it for granted.