Like many of you, I am glued to the TV and internet taking in what I can bear to take in regarding the complete devastation in Haiti.
And I ponder: What can just one person do?
I made a donation to Doctors Without Borders. Why that particular cause? Consider it viral social media marketing at its best--my sister-in-law posted in her Facebook status that she made a donation to DWB and included the link. I clicked on it.
I asked my parish leaders to solicit the congregation to donate through our tithing program.
I continue to watch the coverage.
I cry.
I pray.
I pray for the lost, the maimed, the vulnerable. I cry for the now motherless children. One image is sticking in my head. A child about 4 years of age. He's sitting in the street, naked looking desperately around. His eyes pleading, "Is that you, Mother? Do you know where my mother is?"
So I pray some more that help will get there in time and that God will be with them.
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I've seen the quote,"No one can do everything, but everyone can do something," before and it seems quite appropriate now. The devastation is so massive and the pictures so heartbreaking that we each need to do the thing we can do to help and encourage others to do the same.
Whether we donate (I chose Partners in Health) or we pray or we just try to be more decent to one another, it all has the cumulative effect of making the world better. May peace and strength be with those who ache and mourn and with those who rescue, heal and rebuild.
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