SubscribeWaking up with gratitude and trust
What a wake-up call! I’m not sure which came first, the rumbling train-like sound or the quick shaking of my bed. But I sprung up just as they were subsiding since, fortunately, neither lasted very long. Almost instinctively though, I blurted out “an earthquake.”
It’s still hard to image that Washington, D.C. , the nation’s capital, experienced its largest quake ever with a magnitude of 3.6 at 5:04 a.m today. All I can say it that I am thankful it was not any worse, just a little rattle to wake me up with a new appreciation for starting each day with gratitude. Nothing in the house was disturbed, and we each went on with our morning routines.
Our quake does not compare, and I pray we never have one that does, to some of the earthquakes that caused much damage over the past couple of years. Haiti, for one, is still reeling from the effects of the 7.0 magnitude quake that struck there Jan. 12. A friend who traveled there last month told me of the devastation and despair she witnessed. She also spoke of the hope she saw in many of the people.
“It is unfathomable how the Haitian people are managing to live there among the dust, debris and gravel – piles of crumbled rocks, bricks and stones. Yet, they remain resilient and try to go on with their lives,” said Gloria Hill, who will be helping orphans in Haiti. “Millions are still living in tiny shanties and shacks no bigger than my tool shed (which is in better condition).”
Yet, Gloria continued, many of the “displaced Haitians seemed to find a way to smile in spite of the mass destruction they see everyday all around them.”
I’m closing out this work week even more grateful and placing all my trust in the one true God.
“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.” Psalm 20:7
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