All God's Children

How can you look at the tragedy in Haiti and not feel compassion? How can you not feel compelled to help in some way? I know we all sometimes wonder why such tragedy happens. If God loves us all, why does horrible things happen to some? I don't know that answer. I do know he loves us all and is a perfect ruler of an imperfect world. Right away I have heard and seen criticism of our country's response to the disaster. I have also seen and heard gripes about the Hope for Haiti fund raiser the other night on all the networks. I know there are people in our country in need, but how do you turn your back on your fellow man? How can you look at a poor country with distaste that when we had Hurricane Rita blow through our area, they had 4 hurricanes that same season? These people have much of nothing on a good day. I don't know. I am just trying to make sense of the tragedy and those like it. The scriptures are always a good place to turn when in doubt over anything, but I was curious as to what Bono would have to say about things. He is one of my favorite celebrities and seems to have been given a calling when it comes to describing what we as a world need to do for our fellow man. He, along with some others, wrote a song about the tragedy in Haiti. They performed it the other night on the fund raiser, but I was on the phone with my sister and missed hearing the performance. I looked up the words, and thought some of the words ring with truth for us all. I highlighted my favorite part.

When the sky falls and the Earth quakes
We gon put this back together
We won’t break
[repeat]

Sa Pa Sé, my Port-Au-Princes
my Haitian Gods and all of my Princesses
Our condolences as you fightin’ against this
we’re right by your side as we tryin’ to make sense of this
heavenly father help us see through these problems
and for those thats left accept them into your garden
so here’s my theory, the country’s already starvin’
so we sacrificed many to shed light on all of them
God please pardon, I speak from the heart
its the only way I see this tragedy befall on them
so lets get involved with them, hand to hand with them
arm to arm with them til they get strong again,
When the sky falls…

Can’t wait until tomorrow
Haiti, Mon Amour
Haiti, Mon Amour
Not gonna leave you stranded, alone, alone
oh no

[Chorus]

Learn from the past, New Orleans was flooded
So we know we just can’t rely on the government
We under the rubble again, here we go rumbling when
When we gonna catch a break, my friend lost his mother and then
And then, Carline lost her uncles and them
Buried with no caskets, they just put covers on them
And the tears fall, and we fight back
Story ain’t done, it can’t end like that
Nah not like this, tomorrow’s survivors gonna carry on your name
You live on inside us, your memory’s alive with us
You inspired us, to rebuild this country, you just guide us

It’s not the angels that are on their way
its not the bells of Santa Trinite
the people waiting, position vacant(?)
for hands to help, not just to pr

[French singing]
Haïti va s’élever
Tu vas te relever
Nous nous éléverons
Ensemble ensemble ensemble

(not gonna leave you stranded…)

we gon put this back together we wont break
we gon put this back together we wont break
we gon put this back together we wont break
we gon put this back together we wont break