I don't know if you have heard, but there was an earthquake in new Zealand recently and the disaster was bad, as of right now 75 people have died and they have declared it one of the worst disasters to hit new Zealand. to read more on the quake there... click HERE
after watching the news about this and reading a few articles...i have come to realize something... i compare every disaster, natural disaster to Haiti's earthquake of January 2010 and comparison is never a good thing...because all things are relative...
see everything doesn't seem as bad beacuse i believe Haiti was probably the worst natural disaster of our time...how can loosing 75 lives compare to over 200,000...
then i think well maybe its because i was there...and that experience was so intense...but then i think why wouldn't i be more compassionate...because i understand what it is like to be there...to be in that state of crisis...to understand the earth moving beneath you and all the chaos that comes with that...
surely i would have more compassion and not comparison...
surely i would be more like my Father in heaven and LOVE....
surely i would be moved to pray harder because of the empathy in me literally knowing what that experience is like...
but i have found that i don't...
i do at moments, but generally i compare and then i am angry...
HOW COULD ANYONE FORGET HAITI...
do they realize the gravity of what is still going on in Haiti because of that earthquake...
do they realize the shape this country was even in before the disaster...
i want to say stop looking at this disaster and be reminded of Haiti's and that it is still struggling in ways most of us could never even fathom...
i know it is wrong of me to feel this way in a sense...for the Lord tells us to have compassion on one another, to pray and show HIS LOVE...
see whether it is 75 or 200,000.... 1 is 1 and a life is a life... i pray for more compassion...but at the same time i think it is okay for me to be angry...
of course, only if its a JUST anger for the nation of Haiti because the situation it is in...
most of it's struggle imposed on the country not because of Haitians, but the countries around them for years taking advantage of them...
despite their strength...
all this to say...sometimes i don't understand my inner reactions to the disasters i see in the world...
i miss Haiti...
i cry for Haiti...
i pray for Haiti...
my heart is for Haiti...
but...
A LIFE IS A LIFE...no matter how many....
2 comments:
B.E.A.utiful t-rae.
I woke up the other morning and read about the earthquake eleven hours after it happened. My first thought was "Gosh, this feels like that moment in class when I got a text telling me about Haiti and that we didn't know where you were."
I prayed, prayed, prayed.
So yeah, I kind of got that feeling about this recent earthquake too... thanks for voicing this. love you
Hey girl,
I remember when the Haiti earthquake happened too. It was all over the news, much, much more than this earthquake in New Zealand. So many places came together trying to help Haiti, even my phone company. Our hearts were scared and broken.
I can relate to comparison versus compassion. When I meet someone who still has a mom, or has lost a loved one after they lived a long life, it is hard for me to be compassionate because my mom died so young.
Love ya friend
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