Brief thoughts on rainbows and tectonic plates.... Haiti, Je prie a dieu pour vous, pour votre pays, pour vos coeurs...pour le monde.

I saw a rainbow in the sky today against the backdrop of scattered clouds that suggested no rain and all the blueness and sunshine of a beautiful spring day. I hear, "No, not this way" in it, like a promise.  

I kept going from place to place...first to work this morning...then to an appointment...then to grab something quick to eat...then to talk and do music...and as i drove, my thoughts flitted from me, to the world, to Jesus...and back again. 

How could this happen, I think to myself.  Knowing a bit about geology (having flirted briefly with becoming a geology major in undergrad - long sad story) and tectonic plates is only helpful in a clinical way here given this catastrophe under which Haiti bears and the rest of the world watches, some fearing, some condescending, some having compassion, others perplexed into immobility.  It's not the buildings collapsing - it's the people trapped and crushed...and the survivors.   Buildings can be rebuilt.  A soul lives only once.  That child -- there was only one just like her, only one little brother just like him. 

I am so sad for this place with so little losing so much more - and in such a sweeping way.  I dare not try to speak for God in this.  But I must trust that He is sovereign, even in this devastation.  I cannot fathom the magnitude of this...it makes me dizzy, just as staring up at the night sky meteor shower makes me dizzy to think of Creator God beauty infinitude.  I can barely fathom how one holds up under the weight of such depths of sorrow and loss and destruction (without despairing)...can barely fathom all that will follow in the aftermath.  Haiti, I have been crying out to God for you.   Hands and Feet of Jesus who live in Haiti (and will travel there to assist), I cry out to God also for you.  Be strong and courageous and loving.  Everything you do, do in love.