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1/14/2010 5:37:00 PM
Imagine tomorrow you wake up, and your home is destroyed. Not only your home demolished, but your work. The school your kids attend is reduced to rubble. You have hurt yourself, yet have no where to get medical attention or even drugs to help. Worse yet, you have no way of contacting your family. You have no way to know if they're safe, or to let them know you are safe. Your thoughts immediately turn to the worst. You hear rumours that 100,000 people are assumed dead, probably including some people you know.
You wander through the streets, tip toeing around buildings sitting precariously, ready to topple. On one side of the street, dead bodies lay. You see children with open wounds, elderly with broken bones and people sleeping in the streets all around you. To make things worse, you have no food to eat. Even your most basic need of water to drink isn't being satisfied.
Again, you have no food, no water, no home, family is missing, you're injured, you're scared. This is not a what-if scenario. This is reality. Worse yet, this is reality for people who never had it all that good to begin with. If you were in that situation, I'm sure you'd want help from someone. The good news for you and me is we're not in that situation, the good news is we are blessed with what we do have and are able to help out these devastated people. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Haiti who need help, and they need it now.
I hope you'll consider making a donation to the Red Cross. What is a small sacrifice to us, saves lives elsewhere.
https://redcross.csfm.com/haiti/
I was sent this video, which is very graphic...but it really drives home just how large the devastation is.
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David Rolfson
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Well put Dave. Hug your kids, pray for those who have lost theirs, and give what you can even if it is only a dollar or two. We have so much and they have lost what little they had.
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Posted By
Dianne
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1/15/2010 10:17:19 PM
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