Haitian man survives in rubble 27 days after quake

CNN has just reported that a man has been pulled from the Haitian rubble 27 days after the mega quake hit!! He appears very thin, and apparently stated that someone in a white coat brought him water several times and then went away! This is a truly miraculous story, which will undoubtedly produce skeptics, and lots of spin ie. maybe he hid in the rubble for 27 days in order to get his own reality tv show! It will be interesting to see what is made of this. I just say...."Thank God...again!

Haiti death toll tops 200,000 as aid anger mounts

Haiti death toll tops 200,000 as aid anger mounts

a lot can happen in 2 weeks, and it feels as if the world is starting to turn it's attention away from the desperate situation in Haiti, with the exception of the 10 Americans arrested for trying to smuggle 33 children across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic.

The economy continues to struggle, Toyota is in a battle for it's reputation, Virgin Mobile has a flight ready space shuttle just waiting to fly anyone with enough money on a tour of the galaxy...and the Haitian people continue to be hungry; homeless; and dying from the post surgical complications of gangrene in amputated limbs!

The rains will be coming soon. The Haitians will not only get wet....but their makeshift shelters of bed linens on posts will quickly breakdown; The rubble entombing what remains of the "unfound" will wash the fetid remains down the streets, along with the human waste that has been accumulating over the paste several weeks as a result of no "infrastructure" meaning bathrooms. This water will pool in areas that will be used to drink and wash...and we have entered the second phase.

Bullied by God?

On January 12, 2010 at approximately 5:00 p.m. a mega quake hit Haiti, and the tragedy began to unfold, video clip by ghastly video clip, picture by picture, it became horribly clear that we were bearing witness to a historical event in time. Too horrendous to imagine, stories of mass graves, heaped corpses, grief stricken family members, and the final toppling of an infrastructure that was already inadequate to say the least. Then amongst the horror, amazing rescues are heard of...3 days....5 days 1 week...2 weeks...people surviving against all odds...spending their hours praying to God. We have witnessed the Haitian people dancing and singing in the streets, worshipping God in theirt darkest hour! But tonight on Larry King Live, actor and activist Sean Penn starts off by saying "the people of Haiti have been bullied by God for many years"! I am immediately outraged!!! Sean is doing great work in Haiti, and I can see the sadness on his face as he recounts the desperation he is seeing...but....bullied by God? Incredibly, the Haitian People have suffered this disaster with grace and strength. Their circumstances in Haiti are as a direct result of human greed, not theirs but ours.... as it is in all third world countries. If we were doing, and had always been doing, what God calls us to do - loving each other - then these people would not have been living in desperate conditions; in unstable buildings; little food; little money.

God has not bullied the Haitian people, it is us....whenever we turn a blind eye to the poverty and suffering of our brothers and sisters in third world countries we are guilty....when getting a Tim's coffee is more important than feeding a child we are guilty...when we find any excuse we can NOT to invest $30.00 a month on someone's life we are guilty. If anyone deserves God's wrath, it is us...not them.

It is simply easier, and cheaper, to blame God.