Tsunami's , Earthquakes , Volcanoes ....and the recent HAITI-QUAKE.......there's nothing gathering more attention than natural disaster itself........Words like global warming and GO-GREEN and RELIEF follow close behind......but really, is natural disaster that bad???
Everyone is so overwhelmed after disaster strikes, even if your not even remotely related and effected by it.......yet there's a sense of grief one thats shared beyond communities,giving them topics of discussion for days.............so in a way its maybe not all that bad........
Tragedy has a way of visiting those who can bear it least....And HAITI stands example to this......and so many others as well.......but what people dont see is how relief to this country has gathered a sense of knowing and sort of like an united goal..........this apocalyptic earth-quake may be "cruel and incomprehensible" as Barack Obama puts it, ....BUT what do you comprehend of this sense of optimism shared by ALL...........PRAYERS,CAMPAIGNS ,CANDLE-LIT MARCHES.....POSTERS.....BANNERS..........USED CLOTHES AND BLANKETS........MONEY...........FOOD...........all this effort breaking barriers makes one good soap-opera.....except that here's we're dealing with LIFE.....rather DEATH..........
Have you noticed how when one part of the world is under crisis ,everyone is so glued to the television.........or discussing it through the day........to recollect,its more like a great 3-D movie with special effect ,and us relishing a big bucket of pop-corn ..... sounds disgusting.....yet so true......denying its very existence.......human nature being excuse...........
At an Apologetic seminar i once learnt that GOD made the perfect earth possible.........So to balance it from all the harm man is doing.....DISASTER strikes......hmmm........lets analyse........its more like........when you eat out of your limits for a day.........your body balances it by inducing vomit or diarrhea ......the earth does the same ...........but just a little differently.......and with these(calamities) happening so close apart one can only say that Earth is getting TOO FULL-TOO FAST...........and before you know its EVERY-DAY!!!!!.....But you don't realize that when your sick.....your getting attention you love.......also people who hate you ,some-how show concern, if not worry........and if your dying......even your estranged enemy will come to see you........Its sort of like that will calamities...........The bigger it is.........the closer people get......just to ACCELERATE RECOVERY.......
I know all this is easy for me since i'm on the other-side of it.......also i've not come close to experiencing misery the way their living it........so all i can do is analyse for a couple of days and forget it happened......but what it sometimes does is create bonds that were never meant to be other-wise........crazy right??!!........
"GOD BLESS HAITI AND ITS SURVIVORS..........."
hey good thought. I appreciate your optimism and your view of seeing positivity even in negativity. It simply shows how wonderful, simple, sweet and peace loving and god fearing you are.
thank you.... :)
Actually. I don't agree with the God created Earth perfect bit how you mentioned it but consider this perspective. God created all that is expect Himself. So if he created the people in Haiti, he also created the island of Hispanola and the people and the fact that it was on a faultline. Since he did all that he must also be "responsible" for the earthquake. Now if you are going to react in shock and say, "Sunil, how can you say that ever?", the very fact that you feel compassion for these people is because God created you with the ability for compassion. Try not to and let's see how long you can manage without actually feeling compassion. So it's a complete deal. The answer, as painful as it may seem, is way beyond the novelty of the fact that the earth quake brings people together. It is in the fact that God created all that I just mentioned. And while I am searching for answers how God can give us compassion and "supposedly" treat another of us "without compassion", I suggest that you also look into the end times that the Bible says will come.
sunil god created even our bodies.......but if we abuse our bodies we land up with symptons and diseases and disorders later.........its something like that......i'm just putting an apologetics point of view here which i believe,not entirely cause i need answers myself.....also fault lines have come about over years..... geology thing that i read.....they are not there from the beginning of time....also fault lines need to be triggered......so man is really responsible for these calamities......and blaming god is an excuse man does to cover his activities........
yup so it is an abuse of the system which is asked for once you abuse the system. blaming god is a cover that man does for his activities - the God which he denies gave him the ability to have those abilities in the first place (which he then went and abused).
What about those who are not responsible for the abuse of the system? That is what I mean by - "how God can give us compassion and "supposedly" treat another of us "without compassion".
God has spared the righteous many a time when he destroyed places due there being a large amount of prevalent evil there. Not only that. He also takes care of His beloved. So, I don't believe that he would not. Also, he is a just God. He would not let people die for things that they have not done. Whether they have been ignorant or whether they have been misinformed - I am not sure.
But our response must be at the least that of concern for our brothers and sisters there.If we can't go there ourselves and do something about it, then in honesty to the compassion that we ought to have. Which is the case I think with this discussion.