For Heaven Sakes

Please pray for the people of Haiti! I have been there and the poverty was really unbelievable. This earthquake will be devastating to those people. Please also pray for our little sponsored child, Kerlinda Aneus. She lives there with her mother and five brothers and sisters and she just celebrated her ninth birthday in November. There is no way I can find out about whether she and her family were injured. All I can do is pray for them - I ask you to do the same.

This is one of those things I just don't understand, but I will continue to trust in the Lord to work it out as He sees fit.

I like the following poem by Horatius Bonar:

O love of God, how strong and true,
Eternal and yet ever new,
Uncomprehended and unbought,
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.

O heavenly love, how precious still!
In days of weariness and ill,
In nights of pain and helplessness,
To heal, to comfort, and to bless.

O love of God, our shield and stay
Through all the perils of our way;
Eternal love, in thee we rest,
Forever safe, forever blest.

I also like the following from a devotion by Paul B. Maves:

"The New Testament does not have an explanation for suffering. It only proclaims that God is in charge of His world and that a time will come when all suffering will cease, all tears will be dried, and all sorrow swallowed up in laughter. Then all things will be made clear, and the balances of justice will be redressed. God wills our salvation and our fulfillment, not our suffering or our destruction. God wills healing, not hurt. God wills eternal life, not death".