Sunday, May 11, 2008

Myanmar and us...

What do we do or think about what's going on in Myanmar?
A huge act of God causing deaths that are so extreme that makes us ask ourselves, "why?". Just like the tsunami that hit the small town in Sumatra, killing thousands, this cyclone hitting Myanmar can only serve to remind us how fragile we really are. How our life can be snuffed like a candle in the wind.
Yet, many of us walk this earth thinking we're God's gift to mankind. Thinking the world owes us. Thinking we'll live forever.
The last article I read about Myanmar was about how there was not even any electricity or money to generate the power in order to incinerate the corpses of the victims... leaving a terrible stench. Diseases will be inevitable. If there was any way any one can help, it surely has to be either to fly there and assist, or by finances, and of course by prayer.
The question i ask myself is: Why would God do this? Doesn't God love us?
My only answer to this is : I dont know. I just have to trust that He knows what He's doing and there is a reason bigger than my own understanding or logic.
I pray in my own way, that the survivors of this terrible tragedy will somehow be ok. That the children will grow up and NOT live with a psychological impairment. That their lives will go on... and that somehow... they will, if not already... eventually find our true God.
God help them and maybe moreso, God help us, who have not found Him. Life IS fragile.

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