The Great Wave

The earthquake and following tsunami that hit India and various other nations is heartbreaking. I don't dare watch news about it, or click on the thumbnails to get a closer view of what's going on. Text is bad enough...

On the forum I run, someone pointed out the utter silence by writers about all the souls lost in those monumental waves. It is true that so many people died who had never read a Bible, never heard of the Savior, and they will now have to meet God face to face and not be able to enter the gates of heaven.

But I find the idea of agonizing and morning for the dead, for those I do not know and will probably never see, somewhat.. well, pointless. Who matters now? Those who are dead, or those who are alive?

I morn more for the living. Those people who lost children, spouses, friends, and everything in between. They will suffer, but in a touchable way. They will suffer in a way that can heal.

But it will take such a long long time. And I really really really deeply feel for those poor souls who not only survived such a horror, but got to witness others die. I doubt there will be a restful night's sleep for them for long long time....

Whatever we can do, we should do. For now I pray. Later, I will hopefully be able to do more.

And of course, lurking in all our minds (at least those who think about it) is "Why? Why did this happen?" For some they will blame God or themselves, and for others they will realize that there is no one to blame. I wonder what that's like, to know that you'll never know WHY. It just happened.

What a horrible thing. To never know.

May good come out of this horrible tragedy. I hope that in the worst of it, people will find that "silver lining" and cling to it. Because hope will be the only thing they'll have.

What surprises me more, is that while I've been skimming the world of personal journals, very few have posted about this. Either they don't know (which would surprise me) or they simply don't want to think about it.

I can't really blame them either. Who wants to think about 50,000+ people dying, and leaving so many behind to morn for them? If we are honest with ourselves, we'll admit we really DON'T like to think about that type of thing. It's a scary thing, a frightful thing, that much death. Because one death, two, three, etc is bad enough.

That's all I can think of to say now.

Moral Superiority?

One of the problems I have with my "own kind" (that would be the "right") is their mighter-than-thou attitude. As a whole, they seem to think they are so much better than "the left". I should contend that they are not morally any better or worse than the "left", with the exception of abortion (sometimes).

On abortion I do believe there is a reason to feel morally superior. Abortion on demand is the worst, absolutely worst, type of thing I have ever seen. It's strange to me that people of the "left" despise war so much, but are so willing to throw away a "forming" life for the sake of convenience.

But just about everything else I can't say the "left" is any worse or better than the "right". Each has their failures, and each says incredibly thoughtless and stupid things. Each likes to take potshots at each other. And each is just as petty as the other.

So, I wish the "right" would get off their high horse. Come on people! Let's rise above the status quo and be something a little more humble and a little more down to earth.