“Hurricane
Sandy”
A
Time For Thoughts, A Time For Wishes, A Time For Prayers, And A Time For
Healing.
10/30/12
To my very, very dearest friends, and always kind
readers,
Safe within the comfort of my little home, with, “Daisy”,
loyally at my side, its easy—somehow—to become so wrapped-up in one’s illness,
pain, and situation, that its almost impossible to imagine the horrendous scope
of human tragedy, loss, and suffering of those, reeling from the destruction
and devastation most recently wrought by hurricane, “Sandy”.
Even the name, “Sandy”, sounds so innocuous in any
attempt to conceive what absolute carnage any hurricane can do. And of the subsequent weeks and weeks
necessary to restore even basics such as available drinking water, food, and
medical care; not to mention the seemingly endless difficulty in finding
shelter, and the restoration of electrical, telephone, and computer service to
those affected.
When we look—though—at news or radio broadcasts, or
see video after video of damage, of persons who have lost everything...family
members, friends, pets, homes, cars, and who can be seen wandering aimlessly—in
total shock—through endless piles of waterlogged wreckage and debris, looking
for someone, something, anything.
For in the passing of a few, scant hours, their
hopes, wishes, dreams…in fact, their entire lives were stripped from them and
swept away.
Seared into our conscious minds were sights of the
absolute, horrendous power of the hurricane, with after-effects one can only,
vaguely associate with nuclear blasts.
We hear their weeping; we see their grief; we can
see the hopelessness in their eyes.
But we can only imagine their loss, their sorrow,
the broken will, or the broken heart.
Safe and secure in front of the computer—perhaps—quiet
and safe within our homes we should feel an enormous feeling of rage, of
helplessness, feeling as if we should DO something, but not knowing quite what
TO do.
First of all…and I hardly, really need mention it,
is to telephone to try to get in touch with a affected loved one, or friend;
make sure that they are relatively safe.
If you have room, or can make room, open up your homes to them; it needn’t
be forever, should you worry about being inconvenienced.
For those without family or friends in the
devastated areas, one CAN at least make a small
donation to whatever Charity you think best utilizes
their resources.
And even should they be as strangers to us, we can
still keep them I our minds, in our hearts, and (as may be appropriate) in our
prayers.
Try to imagine (past your own sense of pain,
illness, or deprivation) how they feel; imagine how you—too—might feel in such
a situation. It should make you grateful
for what you DO have: family members, friends, and/or pets who genuinely love
you; shelter, food, and running water.
And now is as good a time as any to mention: never
let an opportunity pass by to tell someone special just how very, very much you
value them, and love them! For—as we
have seen only too well—that chance might be taken-away from you in a
heartbeat!
And—with our hopes and prayers—we can help them
recover. For as fellow humans, we can
surely do no less.
Thank
you.
And,
please always know that I love you dearly!
‘Zahc’/Charles
