A familiar New Year's Day image offers eerie perspective. Picture the Rose Bowl Game with all of the fans, the bands and the teams. The color, the pageantry, the sheer energy of excitement. Now picture every one of these people gone. That's the damage of the tsunami in South Asia. The latest death toll is 114,000 people.
The numbers are staggering and the images haunting. And the need is obvious for Christians to join our prayers and efforts with those whose lives who have been so devastated by our beautiful but, fallen and still groaning Earth (Romans 8:19-22).
In the Christmas post immediately below, Craig Williams offers Anna and Simeon as models of "a persistent lifestyle of hope." May we who believe that because of his personal visit in the incarnation, God has special interest in the groans of the world, demonstrate the difference of our faith. Our reflection on the incarnation can lead to compassion prayerfulness and action. While it seems like so little, even those of us who are so far away can, in the words of Tolstoy, "add our light to the sum of light".
(If you'd like to join me in contributing to the relief effort that is already going on, here is the link for World Vision. If you are having trouble getting through World Vision's web line, you can call 888-562-4453.)
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