It is a sad state of affairs for the 200,000 people or more who have lost their way, lost their home, their sense of security, especially in a country where the bad things are never expected to happen and the word "refugee" does not conjure thoughts of stranded Americans.
I guess out of all difficulties and trials that we go through however, despite being full of bleaknesss, I hope and wish that these friends, brothers and sisters of ours from that area can find their way. I hope and wish that they will reclaim for themselves what they call home. I hope and wish for them that they can tell their children when they go to bed, that "everything again IS fine" really soon. I also hope that maybe somewhere they will discover their own little miracles, people who they never expected assistance from, will become like their own, like themselves caring about them as much as we do our own family.
At the end of the day, at the end of the drama, we are one human family after all, but it is so easy to forget it until these disasters land in our own backyard. Let us begin to think as we do during these times where the stranger becomes a friend and an enemy becomes a family member to do the same things that we do now tomorrow. After the disaster, after the help, after the security is gained again.
From one part of the world to the other...
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