Comments on: What would you do?

By: jasonS

jasonS — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:07:43 +0000

I’m not sure how I missed this post, but very needed questions. We have to keep things in perspective. Thanks, Peter.

By: Jojo Agot

Jojo Agot — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:18:40 +0000

November 5, 1991. I was in sixth grade when a flash flood hit my home town- Ormoc City, Philippines. More than EIGHT THOUSAND people died in a matter of minutes. The days that followed the disaster were the hardest. The city looked like a ghost town, dead bodies were everywhere, the smell was unbearable, no food, no clean clothes, no houses to go home to, nothing. For outsiders, it would seem like the city was beyond repair.

One of my pastor friends had a riveting testimony of standing on the top of their house while it was being swept to the sea. He remembered falling to the water, holding on to a piece of wood in his desperate attempt for survival, passing out, and waking up in the shore naked, wounded and almost dying. He was just a young boy when it happened, probably twelve or thirteen.

Today, nineteen years later, the city is bustling with life again. First time visitors would never notice that more than a decade ago, the place was deemed hopeless and beyond recovery.

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By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:12:45 +0000

Interesting post Peter. It is hard to fathom what that's actually like. You see the pictures, but I'm sure that doesn't do it close to justice. I could certainly pray for those people more. it seems the more the news cycles, the less we hear, and the more we forget.

By: Kevin_Martineau

Kevin_Martineau — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:53:37 +0000

Very challenging thoughts here Peter! I am going to have to let this sink for a while …

By: Peter_P

Peter_P — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:12:16 +0000

They are. I sit and wonder what I would do. I hear my children begging for food a few hours after they last ate and wonder what I would do if we lost everything.

By: Peter_P

Peter_P — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:11:22 +0000

I purposefully said that it 'seems' there is no hope for recovery.

Sitting here, we can see what's going on and how much hope there is for Haiti but I imagine (and I can only imagine) that for many people who are living in one of the tent cities, a sense of hopelessness must be setting in.

Not for all by any means, many will still retain positivity and optimism but many thousands, I'm sure are wallowing in despair!

By: Peter_P

Peter_P — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:06:44 +0000

You got it, Candy.

Some are called to go, some are called to resource those who go.

We just have to use what we've been given for what we've been called to!

By: Peter_P

Peter_P — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:05:51 +0000

Thanks, Ginny

By: Peter_P

Peter_P — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:05:42 +0000

We all have such a warped view of what 'need' is.