23,000

The death toll is sure to keep rising. I am relieved to read that Joe and Jane Missionary are also safe and sound. I'm still struggling with the enormity of this disaster, my attempts at prayer seem feeble at best.

What do you even begin to ask of God when a tragedy of this magnitude strikes? What words are there that can adequately express your heart? So many lives! How fleeting!

It is hard to write today, thinking about the loss of life, and the anquish of the survivors. There just don't seem to be words for it.

God, be God.