thought to share.

Photo taken from Tributes.com.

Photo taken from The Star Online.

Photo taken from The Christian Science Monitor.

Video of the tsunami can also be found here.

Photo taken from Reader's Digest Version.

Photo taken from The Sydney Morning Herald.

Photo taken from Blog Watch.

The Christian Fellowship in UM has a room in one of the administrative buildings. We received a call one day telling us two of our ceiling panels collapsed, and the room was flooded from a leaky air-conditioner.

I remember looking at the broken pieces of the ceiling and the flood of water on the ground and feeling utterly devastated. Not because I didn't think I could clean up, but because there was just so much to do that shouldn't have needed to be done, and I didn't know where to start. 

I had to ber-monologue, telling myself to do this and to do that, start here and go on over there, to get myself to move into action.

My experience was half a room of broken piece of ceiling and a room of air-conditioner water,

The Japanese's experience is a nation shaken by a quake and a land swept by a tsunami.

Defeat is one of the most overwhelming feelings to bear, and defeat is what our Japanese brothers and sisters are feeling.

Even if they rebuild their lives, where do they begin? 

From the pieces of rubble around them, because there is nothing left.

How can we watch people in their pain,

and still seek gain for ourselves?

Where has it gone?

The heart for people?

Do we feel nothing when we read and watch the news?

Are we not human anymore?

Are we not moved to pray for them?

Where is Jesus' heart of compassion that should abide in us?

Our hearts are heavy.

The destruction is greater than we first imagined,

and we find ourselves crying to God 

to have mercy upon the Japanese people.

The time between the mighty earthquake and the tsunami

was simply too short for many to escape.

-- Update from Sapporo, Japan.

Pray for mercy.