Looks like Haiti for christ will become a de-facto American protectorate over the next few days as haiti earthquake news is essentially collapsed and non-functional. If we’re going to do it, might as well be in for a dime, in for a dollar get a UN resolution putting orphans Haiti into trusteeship under American protection. We’re going to end up spending billions, anyway, and we might as well do something permanently useful.

You can begin to grasp the scale of carnage inflicted by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake by looking at some of the mind-staggering photos coming from the impoverished nation. Rubble strewn with body parts; gashed and contorted bodies; mud-stained faces of orphaned children; a grief-stricken father holding his limp child.

Situated 10 miles from the epicenter, Port-au-Prince was Haiti’s bustling capital. Today it’s a graveyard. As relatives retrieve the bodies and limbs of their loved ones, and rotting corpses pile up on the streets, authorities are having trouble estimating the total dead. Conservative estimates put it at 100,000; some believe it could get up to half a million. That’s just the dead. Countless more are injured, while the international Red Cross projects one third of Haiti’s population, roughly 3 million people, will require emergency aid.

Of course, the international community is rushing to provide help. But officials and humanitarian agencies fear the aftermath could be more lethal than the earthquake itself. Tens of thousands lack shelter and are scrambling to fill aching bellies. Without clean water and proper sanitation, and with hundreds of collapsed homes, schools and hospitals filled with decomposing flesh, entire cities and communities are susceptible to disease. Critical infrastructure roads, buildings, drainage systems are in shambles, hampering rescue and humanitarian efforts.

Then there’s the emotional and psychological desolation. How do you console, let alone heal, a nation paralyzed by heartache and hopelessness?
Humanitarian agencies and church groups are funneling plane-loads of supplies into the country. Adopt Haiti clearly needs them. But what about answering the questions, and providing understanding and insight into why this earthquake happened? Around the world, many are confused and baffled. Others are disheartened not just by the carnage, but because they have no explanation for why it happened. Why now, why Haiti for christ? How many religious leaders possess the spiritual medicine that will calm and comfort, that will provide hope to the newly orphaned child, the limbless survivor, the father who just lost his family?

And really, is there even an inkling of hope to be gleaned from a catastrophic earthquake?

Absolutely! More than you can imagine. And the truth is, the minds of those deeply affected by the Haiti disaster including you, if you’re sufficiently moved and humbled by what you have witnessed are primed to gain this hope.

Intense tragedy often comes with the beautiful byproduct of humility.
The blood-spattered folk in Haiti are hurt, dazed and vulnerable many physically, but most, if not all, mentally and spiritually. These people need assistance from an outside source, they’re totally incapable of solving this crisis themselves.

Ed Sousa over at yvonne trimble posted this haiti earthquake images from the devastation in haiti for christ. The cross of Christ remains amidst the ruble. Let’s continue to pray for this suffering people and to do what we can to help.

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