tsunami thoughts...

i've just been here and read some of the stuff. i then went and looked at his pictures.

everything below is not thought out ahead of time - it is all extrovertly processed, or realistically, unprocessed. if you are unhappy about it in any way, please come and talk to me. don't comment online as i won't be able to comment back as well as i could talk it through - thank you.

it's so hard to know what to feel and think. it reminds me of when andy and i returned from honeymoon and we were opening all our amazing gifts. then the phone went and it was dan cooper telling us that a plane had flown into one of the two towers. then while he was on the phone to us the next plae went in. w e stopped what we were doing and rushed to a friends house to watch it all unfold on tv.

then there have been the times that we have been back to my mum and dad's and i've been watching the tv (i tend to watch lots of bbc news 24) and it happens to be when the iranian earthquake happened or the beslan siege. andy and i joked tht maybe we shouldn't go back to my parents' so much cos it has such devastating effects on the world - how arrogant we are! realistically though it seems that God leads us to a place where we can be informed quickly and clearly.

i try and respond in prayer but what can you pray? my head just floods with images and people of different ages and backgrounds and then you think of their families and friends and now i'm hearing that children are going missing - possible abducted, and so i can't help but worry (and hopefully pray effectively) because of the trafficking problems that are worldwide. but maybe these children are being taken in by families who will care for them and pour out love to them.

i want to hold a book and video sale to raise money for the tsunami appeal. hopefully they'll let me set up at the back of church next sunday. maybe people will 'barter-up' to buy some random book which they can then give straight to a charity shop. and what strikes me as so selfish in it all is that it will actually help me with one of my new year's resolutions - to de-clutter.