Trouble in my heart

The Lord gives his people strength. 

The Lord blesses them with peace.

~ Psalm 29:11, NLT

Help me with my troubled heart!
It is hard for me to even imagine the enormity 
of the recent earth quake  in Haiti.
Haiti is a country with huge challenges 
for it's people to survive on a normal day, 
without earth quakes and hurricanes.


There are millions of people who are not able 
to provide for themselves, and have no formal 
education what so ever.  A country with few or 
no natural resources, a weak government at best, 
and a very very poor economy, with little agriculture 
and food to sustain an over populated mass 
of people in which nearly half 
practice Voodoo as a religion.


Think for a moment how it would be to have 
very limited health care, inadequate shelter, 
and clean water, inferior building construction 
with no building construction or other codes in place.  
One of the word's weakest infrastructures, 
and very little or no law enforcement with a huge 
unemployment rate.  Some parents resort to 
selling some of their children for money to survive!


Help me pray for them.  


Lord teach us your ways.  Keep us safe from harm.  
Help us help the helpless.  Forgive us when 
we can only think of ourselves. Give them strength 
to survive.  Give the rescuers strength to sustain 
the efforts.  Give the surviving strength to cope.


Lord give them hope.


Then too, Lord help those who have 
problems not related to a country far from home.  
Your awesome power, understanding,
 and love can be there for a world full of need 
all at the same time.  Most of our daily needs, 
as you know Lord, do not make headlines, 
but you hear them somehow.


Lord give us all hope.

In the name of your son, amen.


Love to all, Norm