Way back when, in 1994 when I was in Elementary school I remember hearing about the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that shook the Northridge area of California. I remember seeing the scenes of overpasses dropped onto traffic below, pavement cracked revelaing deep crevasses in the earth and buidlings turned to rubble. I remember thinking, this was devastation. In 1994 California had a population of 32.5 million people. 61 people died in the earthquake and more than 8700 people were injured. Until the recent disaster in New Orleans, it was the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history that ever occured in the US.
Just last week a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the country of Haiti. Haiti has a population of 9.7 million. More than 200 000 people in Haiti are dead, thousands more are missing and reports of the injured are now in the millions. The images that are burned in my brain are not those of demolished buildings and cracked pavement, they are images of the mass graves, piles of bodies and streets filled with injured.
This is not a natural disaster. This is the result of extreme poverty. God hear our prayers.
i will be change. i will live change. i will embrace the world as it changes. i will be the change i wish to see in the world. with my own two hands.
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