Amen, Scot.

Yes, Scot, we agree.
John & Julie

I have no idea what happened in comment #3 to create the long website address.

Thank you for this post. As a person of Haitian descent, I appreciate the prayers and support to the people of Haiti. God is reconciling the world to Himself and Haiti is part of Jesus’ inheritance.

Amen brother…

We’re praying for them also.

Well said. Thank you, Scot.

Amen, amen!

Thank you for your caring post. Isn’t it our weakness that often draws us together and allows us to identify with those we might rarely consider?
For a prominent and influential leader like Rush Linbaugh to use this disaster to criticize, judge and power trip is horrifying. And to see other church leaders say a nation “had it coming” because sometime in history “they made a deal with the devil” sounds heartless and self-serving. Do they really think this is how Jesus would respond to such a tragedy?
My prayers are with anyone who suffers. Some days that’s me, some days it’s my so called “enemy”. Perhaps practicing prayer without judgment would actually be a holy thing to do…..

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” Gilbrain
This quote is the Header of Bnet today.
They are just words, when not applied to our lives.
In time, with the healing hands of God, something GOOD, will emerge from this tragedy. As said so beautifully by Randy Harris, by the posting of Scot McKnight.. God Bless them all

During this time that we are focusing on Haiti and the terrible disaster there let us use this moment to inform ourselves about its agonizing history and how the past and present policies of the the U.S.A. toward Haiti have contributed to make this disaster much worse than what it should have been had we treated the Haitian people in a more just manner up to this moment. This disaster did not have to be as bad as it was!
Read about the agonizing history of Haiti and how the United States has contributed to its misery in the book “An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President,” by Randall Robinson

As a lover of Jesus and of the country of Haiti (my wife and I are involved in a ministry there and have stayed in a Port-au-Prince guest house that is no longer standing), I deeply appreciate Scot’s insightful comments.
We are in prayer waiting to hear about our friends, and glad to hear yesterday that a young girl we know well was rescued from the rubble of her school.
So, as Scot suggests, we are immersed in the rubble ourselves and know, even there, that God is present, He cares for His children and He knows each one by name. Romans 5:5