The images flash across the screen of the horrors that are happening across the country of Haiti. Unimaginable images of the carnage and wreckage that has befallen that country and devestated them beyond measure. It's a sad, sad state of affairs to say the least and for most of us, there is nothing we can do but helplessly stand by with horror on our faces and deep rooted compassion in our hearts. My first instinct would be to try and help. After lookng at the overwhelming need, I'd be hard pressed to try and find out where to start. Add that to the fact that we are in no position to help. We have no income and neither one of us are healthy enough ourselves to be able to handle the dire circumstances that we'd have to face there. Neither are we trained. But that doesn't shut off our propensity to have compassion for these people who have been so devestated and so we do the one thing that we truly can do - pray. Pray for the victims, pray for the survivors, pray for the workers, pray for those who are still lost, pray for those who've been injured, pray for those who have lost and those who have reconnected wtih family members and friends who will never be the same.
Tonight as I watched in horror on 60 minutes as bodies were being dumped into dumpsters by endloaders trying to keep the threat of disease down to a minimum, the workers choking over the stench of rotting bodies, I couldn't even imagine the images in person being seared into the brains of those witnessing it first hand. Their lives will never be the same. It breaks my helpless little heart. These were real people, with families and loved ones and lives of their own just a few short days ago. Today everything that was familiar has been literally blown to pieces. That is so extremely sad.
I sat down tonight to blog about our last year of living without a microwave oven. We were not on any mission or green earth project, it just kinda happened that way. Our old home had a built in microwave and when we moved here, this home did not. So we had put in the contract to have an extra cabinet built to match the ones we have so that we'd have a place for the microwave. Me, in my infinite wisdom, told them that there wasn't no hurry. Not a smart statement to make in TN. And so here we have been roughing it for a whole year - and you know what? We've done remarkably fine without it. That's about as inconvenient and roughing it as we've gotten. Of course now, with the economy the way it is, we are facing the possibility, like so many others, of losing our home. Not an easy place to be but certainly not nearly as bad as the situation that countless numbers of people are having to live in in Haiti. We still have food and the car will keep us protected from the elements if it comes to that.
So I sit here and I ask the dear Lord to hear our prayers. I thank-Him that He is not to busy to hear each and every prayer that is being sent up His way. While our concerns may not be as dire as those of the people of Haiti, they are of no less importance to Him. It will take time and it will take a lot of manpower to resurrect a semblance of a country from the rubble in Haiti, but I know with God's grace and mercy working through normal people, it will be done.
And I know without a doubt that He will have answers for us - in His perfect timing - and I will wait for those answers and go wtih the flow. After all, He really does have more pressing prayer requests on His agenda for more immediate needs. If there were a way to do it, I'd open my doors to have some of the Haitians come stay with us so that we could pray together and thank-God for His awesome grace and mercy in the midst of such absolute carnage. He's there... you can see him in the eyes of the children and in the hopes of the parents. He's there and He's here. He is the great I AM! and for that, I am forever grateful. Please say a prayer tonight for all those who are struggling tonight and today as they face uncertainty in a future that by the looks of it look frought with no hope. Pray that they too will see that God already had in place a way to give them a hope and a future and it's been that way for thousands of years - long before they were a blip on the radar of God's screen.
As you go to bed tonight, I would ask you to thank God for the blessings in your own life. You need not look far to find them. With all the bad stuff He'll be hearing for a while, it would be really nice if His children could remind Him that they are so very grateful too. I know I am. God Bless and good night!
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