Lately...

I have been thinking a lot about Haiti. For some reason I have felt so connected to what is going on in this country. I knew about the earthquake very soon after it happened because I am usually very tuned in with the news and the what is happening in the world up to the minute. It seems so unreal. There are so many people suffering, left without a place to sleep, and many left alone without any family. The whole country is in ruins. The streets house dead bodies awaiting their pickup by trucks who take their bodies and dump them in the mass graves without any sort of organization or form of body identification. Those whose loved ones have died away from their sides most likely will never see their bodies or know where they were buried. People will just disappear with their location unknown.

Not only babies cry, but entire families. People are hurt and dying of basic injuries such as lacerations and broken bones, injuries that people shouldn't die from in this day and age. There are not enough hospitals to take care of the injured and even fewer supplies to keep these injuries from killing them. This country has been devastated. The streets have become the home of the survivors along with their dead brothers and sisters...

Supplies arrive, but are not able to be distributed. Survival of the fittest comes into play. People are getting desperate and the situation is getting chaotic.

A poor little baby was found under the rubble. Her cries were heard from outside the rubble of a toppled down building. It took only 30 minutes to save her life. This is just one story. There are thousands of people in the same situation.

I ask myself what can I do? What can we do? We must help our Haitian brothers and sisters. We are so lucky that this didn't happen to us and we are blessed to live in a country where we have so many resources. Because we are so blessed with resources, let's share them.

The easiest way to help that I found was that you can text "HAITI" to 9-0-9-9-9 and you will automatically donate $10 to the Haiti relief fund to the American Red Cross, or go to the Red Cross Website and donate online. You can also donate on the United Nations Website or on the UNICEF website.

Pray and give...whatever you can. Our brothers and sisters need it.