My heart goes out to the people suffering in Haiti. I've been fortunate to never experience an earthquake and deal with such devastation. I've heard so many Americans say these people suffer enough with poverty and then to be punished even more with a natural disaster such as this is unthinkable.
I was watching a scene of Haitians being treated on the front lawn of a hospital, overwhelmed with patients. So many in fact the seventeen doctors had no idea how many they were treating. The newscast showed one mother holding her son while nurses stitched up his leg without any anesthetic. I can't image the agony he and his mother felt. At least with all my medical procedures I had the luxury of pain medicine to deal with it. After, the mother was interviewed and she being fortunate all three of her children survived said, "I know God loves me."
That struck me. How awful to think if someone from your family died from this horrific tragedy, you would believe God didn't love you. Having lost a son myself, I can totally understand how people would believe God doesn't care about you. Or God is punishing you. What good is God, if he does such awful things? It's taken me a long time to come to terms with my belief and relationship with my higher power. And I still can't stand it when people say, "It was God's will," in an effort to comfort you. Bullshit. I don't believe God is pointing his finger and saying this person should die and this person should live. What kind of God would allow serial killers to live while innocent children die? I believe we all have free will and whoever or whatever you believe as your "God," is there to care for us after we leave this planet. I hope that offers some comfort to anyone who has lost someone they love. My God loves everyone.
