The People Journal

More Prayers for Haiti

Posted by: Jim Mondry

Friday, January 15th, 2010 at 4:58 pm

A great quote about the Haiti situation:

Seeing suffering awakens me from the slumber of my ignorance, reminds me of my own self-centeredness, and plunges my theology into the deep water of reality. Is God sovereign, even as the earth heaves and fires are kindled? Is He good, even as the last cries of the dead drift quietly into the silence?

Perhaps that’s why I’m feeling so uncomfortable about what has happened - I’ve been thrust out of a situation where I can pretend to believe that things are okay, and now see the reality of a broken world all the more clearly, and that hurts.  And maybe I can’t do much about that.  I don’t know if that’s inspiring, fatalistic, pessimistic, or just real.  I do know I can try the best I can to make a small difference.

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