See the faces of anguish & agony. Look at what they have lost - everything - their houses, their livelihood, their families & friends. In those few minutes, they lost everything in the world. Here I am, complaining that I have too much work to do, I'm stressed & that I'm fat. Look at these people who have nothing left. Even the air they breathe is dangerous. They probably have no access to decent, basic facilities like toilets, showers nor water to drink & food to eat.
Everyone is just chipping in to rescue whoever they can, just using their bare hands if they have to, lifting rubble & whatever collapsed material on any human. This is the time where no one really cares who you are. This is the time where hatred, pride & prejudice stop to start work on the most humane - to search & to preserve every inch of humanity. My heart cries out when I see the pictures of an old man, frail & weak, trying to lift up rubble with his bare hands to rescue a life that is trapped within. I want to tell him to stop & I will do it for him. In fact, I want to tell it to so many of them that I want to be there but I'm helpless. I want to put my arms around the man who lost his daughter and the woman who lost her husband & mother-in-law.
I heard the song "He's got the whole world in His hands" and yes, I acknowledge that even this earthquake is part of God's work because the world is in His hands. I'm not God & I can't tell Him to stop all these disasters but I can take comfort in the words of the Psalmist who said that even when the earth shakes & when seas roar, we are to be still & be awed to know that God is God.
Somehow, it's hard to find peace in the midst of all the wreckage you see around you but when you realise that these are things beyond the control of us, mere humans, we have to acknowledge the existence of the Almighty. How He is going to work things out, I don't know. He is the Almighty, I am just a work of His creation. The earth will continue to move but He remains the Almighty God.
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