Down the Rabbit Hole

Japan

It is hard not to be drawn into the images and video footage of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. They are as captivating as any Hollywood blockbuster disaster movie, more so because they are real. The devastation is a horrible reminder that the most powerful force known to man is the natural forces of nature. I watched the video report from Reuters that showed a tsunami hitting the port, sweeping up what had to be hundreds of cargo vans and buses in the advancing swells. They looked like matchbox toys caught up in the massive wave. It is impossible not to look at the images of the streets littered with mountains of debris, houses ablaze and the airport rendered unrecognizable and not pause to think of the people. Natural disasters on this scope remind us all that we are one people under God and that we remain at the mercy of the same planet that we so often mistreat and misuse.