Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Praying for Haiti


I cannot begin to imagine what the people of Haiti are going through right now. Especially as I sit here in my bedroom, and look around at my own world. It's like something off of a movie. My world is peaceful and calm. My biggest worry being that I have to go to work tomorrow and I dont have any lesson plans done.

While in another part of the world, on the island of Hispaniola, the world is in utter chaos and nothing is as it was. 100,000. 100,000 people dead. And counting. The number keeps going up. There is no way that it could possibly go down. Some thinking that it could even go as high as 500,000. And over 3 million people were affected by the earthquake. An enormous amount.

The other day my friends and I were talking about the safest place you can go during an Earthquake. Apparently the safest place would be in any doorway of your house. Something to do with the foundation of the house.

Haiti stood no chance. The infrastructure in the impoverished country is not up to par and none of the buildings stood a chance. Sixty percent of the buildings in Haiti were built carelessly and were extremely unsafe.

People die all the time. It's a part of life. But when a large amount of people die, be it a natural disaster or war, or what have you, you cant help but take a step back and say Whoa, death is no joke. We can die whenever.

It's like God is taking you by both arms, and giving you a firm shake and saying "Wake up!"

I'm praying for the people of Haiti. My thoughts are with them all. May God help them all and give them all peace.

If you would like to help the people of Haiti, by donating money, please visit this link, which provides you with a list of places you can donate to.

And please keep Haiti and its people in your thoughts and/or prayers.

9 comments:

the girl in stiletto said...

its heartbreaking :'(

Melanie's Randomness said...

I'm watching the special about it right now. I can't believe it. These poor people. I can't imagine. I'm going to say a prayer for them that there is help.

Humie said...

I can't believe that its real. Watching it on tv is def. not the real thing and we can't possibly imagine what those people are going through right now. 80% of the country was already in poverty and has a history of begin under occupation by foreign powers. We should all pray. InshAllah things will get better. This is a test from God for all of us, of what we do to help our fellow mankind. God is watching wants us to help these people b/c what if God forbid something like this happened to us.
p.s: i just visited this blog today and i really like it!

Margie said...

It's just so very terrible!
I have the people of Haiti in my prayers.

Artistic Logic said...

;(

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foxy said...

I'm praying for Haiti as well. It is truly devastating and heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing, CA.

Heckety said...

Its so true- you look at your world, I look at mine, and we think 'not possible'. Things change in a moment, any moment, and we really never know when the moment will be our turn. That's what I often think.

linlah said...

I think we're all praying for Haiti.

Kate said...

Amen, I hope our thoughts and prayers help! It's tragic!