I want to send my thoughts to the victims in Asia....that terrible disaster!
I want to send my thoughts to those countless children, who lost their fathers and mothers and siblings, now all alone in terrible fear and confusion....to those children for whom reality dealt such a terrible blow.....to those children who were ruthlessly ripped away from all that was safe and warm ......from childhood.....can they ever be children again?!
Ive seen their pictures....big empty eyes, notes held in a small defenseless little hand "Missing mother and father and brothers and sisters".....I am a grown man, but tears flow.
How I wish I could put my arm around them..tell them to crawl up to me, and hold me for a while.....and to be able to suck up all the hurt and the pain.
And yet....this is but one disaster. Every day, every year.....children all over the world experience this, under various circumstances.
How blessed we are, to live in relative safety, to be able to give our children the safe haven they need to grow up to be strong, creative citizens.
And how we take it for granted.......
Life......its a mystery!