Somehow
it doesn’t seem real. It’s a half world away. We watch the pictures of
destruction in disbelief and see rescuers digging for survivors or a loved one
to mourn. We report the dead in numbers, not names. We can repair buildings,
and roads, but the bodies that held the names are gone forever.
All we
can to is embrace the Nepalese people in our hearts and send relief supplies.
Grief is such a painful personal hurt. Sorrow is more universal in its heartache,
for it acknowledges on a higher level the collective loss to humankind. How
many of the dead numbers were potential poets and leaders.
Empathy is not only the capacity to
understand another’s feelings, it is the willingness to comfort, to cry
together and to share the strength of life when so many see nothing but despair
and lost hope. Caring lets those who hurt know they are not forgotten by a
loving spirit as it manifests itself through a helping hand or a shared tear.
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