What good does that do? It fixes our vision on the needy, hurt, and scared. Hopefully, it soaks into our pours and initiates white blood cells to wake up and fight off the infection. It’s how we learn to live outside ourselves. It teaches us compassion and trains us to digest the information about nuclear reactors and numbers of missing and monetary levels of damage and turn it into “real” matters of concern…what are the people doing…how are people getting water…how many haven’t slept in the last two days because they haven’t been able to find their spouse or children or neighbors.
We have to cheer for them!
We have to scream and holler!
We have to clinch our teeth and pump our fists in the air!
They are our new favorite sports team...
- Japanese nuclear plants' operator scrambles to avert meltdowns
Japanese survivors worry about dwindling supplies, food after devastating earthquake, tsunami
Quake Death Toll in Japan Soars; Nuclear Crisis Spreads to 4th Plant
Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you for this. It's so hard to wrap my brain around the level of devastation. Praying for the people of Japan.
ReplyDeleteIt feeds our soul when we allow our heart to ache.
ReplyDeleteShame on us if we can help and don't...More shame on us if we don't even let it interrupt our daily routine.