"Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God." - Maya Angelou-----------------------------------
I cannot get the faces of the children in Haiti out of my head. I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to be suddenly orphaned, injured, hungry, or thirsty and to literally see everything that represented life as a Haitian child disappear before their eyes. How would a child view such a catastrophic event? How can such a child come to believe in a world that has vanished or literally fallen in on top of them?
Children are amazing. With care and love, they will come to trust again and again. To see what is right in the world look into a child's eyes. When sadness is reflected back, we must do all that we can to love, nurture, and surround that child with protection and security to restore hope. What a monumental task the world is facing when the sheer numbers of orphaned children are considered.
The Haitian people are veterans of difficult living circumstances such as poverty and hunger. Haiti is located geologically on the convergence of the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates and just above the South American plate that make up the earth's crust. These plates are shifting minutely on a continuous basis, creating conditions favorable to repetitive earthquake risk that is supplemented by the melting at the polar ice caps.
Haiti has needed global resources for an incredibly long time. Perhaps this horrific event is a world-wide wake-up call to the connection we share with every other human on this planet.
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