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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Why Haiti?


Why Haiti?

Haití must surely be the most miserable place on the face of the earth. The people of Haiti began life as runaway slaves. There was nothing wrong with that, neither at the time nor in these modern days. They were simply poor, uneducated people who had enough sense to know that to live in bondage was wrong. They simply answered the call for freedom.

Their leaders have either been despicable dictators or ineffectual in leading the country out of poverty and into a modern form of democracy. The thing that Haitians seem to understand best is death, for death is ever present. It is visited upon them by their leaders or by one another. The rest of the Western world have taken a blind eye to Haiti that allowed them to make their mistakes and to stand or fall by their own actions.

Enter Mother Nature. When everyday living is a disaster the last thing you need are the disasters that come from hurricanes. Haiti has never actually fully recovered from the very first massive hurricane because the country gets hit so often and so very hard.

And now it has taken a knock out punch. An earthquake so powerful that was almost off the scale has flattened the country and killed probably more than 100,000 people. It’s just not possible to get one’s mind around that. This could be absolutely the worst thing that ever happened to Haiti, or perhaps it could be the best thing if Western nations hear the wake-up call to stop ignoring the country’s plight and take an active and sustainable interest to bring those people a step closer to the 21st century.

If you dedicate any part of your day to prayer, then please include the people of Haiti in your supplications. They need all the help that they can get.

Copyright © 2010 Eugene Carmichael