Tsunami

The scenes of horror and devastation we have witnessed day after day, since Boxing Day, have shocked and appalled our senses. One can only imagine what it must have been like to be confronted by a huge wall of water. When the full forces of nature are unleashed, human beings are feeble and insignificant in comparison!

The worst natural disaster in living memory has left many questioning their faith. How can God have allowed this to happen? So many innocents were killed, a third of them children. I prefer to believe that God does not physically intervene in the world, and works through each one of us. To think that God could have prevented the earthquake, and subsequent tsunamis, yet staid his hand is too awful to contemplate, in my opinion.

One crumb of comfort to come out of this holocaust is generosity of the people in the UK, and other countries around the world, when responding to the Tsunami appeal. I think it is true to say that never before has so much money been raised so quickly. I firmly believe that the spark of the divine that is within us all has been activated and is a beacon of hope and love among the scenes of destruction and desolation.