Myanmar
Posted by Terry Nelson on May 10th, 2008
I have been reading about the devastation in Myanmar.
I’m actually afraid. The situation is described as incomprehensible. Is it enough to pray? I don’t think so, but it seems this is all I can do, and then to only imagine their suffering through my fear.
“If I should forget you… let my right hand be forgotten!” - Psalm 137
May 11th, 2008 at 2:42 am
The government doesn’t want any foreign aid workers…guess they are more afraid of what others will see and learn of the abuses and murders that continue to go on there, than they are for the welfare of their people devastated by this storm. Heck, come to think of it, they probably welcome the devastation. But I wonder just *who* the government is concerned for, if at all?
May 11th, 2008 at 6:19 am
At break at work on Friday I actually heard a co-worker say, “There’s way too many people over there. They just breed like rabbits. It’s just nature’s way of thinning things out a bit.” Where do you even start with a comment like that? I suggested that he try to immagine what it would be like to be in the midst of that devastation, possibly having lost all your family, having nothing to eat. At that he acted a little ashamed, and said that he hadn’t meant to be insensitive. But it’s all too easy to get into an “us” and “them” mentality. There’s too many of “them”, never mind that we’re all loved infinitely by God.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Melody,
What an a-hole.
Katrina: too many black people in New Orleans. They breed like rabbits, don’t ya know?
Andrew: Too many Hispanics in Miami. They breed like rabbits don’t you know?
Northridge: Too many freaks in California. And one freak is one freak too many.
Valdez: Too many terns in Prince William Sound. Laying their eggs all over the place, like they own it.
I would have had to walk out or punch him in the face.
You are obviously a much better person than I.