Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Thinking about Haiti
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The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit yesterday has killed an estimated 100,000. No one knows yet how high the death toll will be, nor how devastating and far-reaching the damage is. The reports are heart-breaking and many, many people are unaccounted for.
This is a frustrating time we live in. The reports come in instantaneously and constantly. The images are shocking and the radio reports are overwhelming. The disaster is at the same time far away, but right in my face and in my ears. Haiti is much closer to the United States than Africa, or the far East, but it might as well as far away as the moon when I have to go to work tomorrow, put gas in my car, and continue on with the routines of life.
In the same 10 minutes I can browse pictures of other people's devastation on npr.org, and listen to audio clips of an iTunes album I'm thinking about buying. While my TV plays, muted, and I sit on my couch in my heated house.
Frustrating. Heart-breaking. Convicting.
Wondering about so many things - most of all, if my prayers for the people of Haiti are actually doing anything. And debating how much money to give to which of the dozens of relief organizations. How do I rationalize a percentage of my income to donate to people who have lost 100% of their livelihood?
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit yesterday has killed an estimated 100,000. No one knows yet how high the death toll will be, nor how devastating and far-reaching the damage is. The reports are heart-breaking and many, many people are unaccounted for.
This is a frustrating time we live in. The reports come in instantaneously and constantly. The images are shocking and the radio reports are overwhelming. The disaster is at the same time far away, but right in my face and in my ears. Haiti is much closer to the United States than Africa, or the far East, but it might as well as far away as the moon when I have to go to work tomorrow, put gas in my car, and continue on with the routines of life.
In the same 10 minutes I can browse pictures of other people's devastation on npr.org, and listen to audio clips of an iTunes album I'm thinking about buying. While my TV plays, muted, and I sit on my couch in my heated house.
Frustrating. Heart-breaking. Convicting.
Wondering about so many things - most of all, if my prayers for the people of Haiti are actually doing anything. And debating how much money to give to which of the dozens of relief organizations. How do I rationalize a percentage of my income to donate to people who have lost 100% of their livelihood?
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