In another day and age, the victims of a catastrophic storm like Typhoon Haiyan would have gone unnoticed by most of the world. But today the images and eyewitness accounts stream to us in almost real time.
A BBC news report says,”Tacloban is totally destroyed. Some people are losing their minds from hunger or from losing their families,” high school teacher Andrew Pomeda told AFP news agency.
“People are becoming violent. They are looting business establishments, the malls, just to find food, rice and milk… I am afraid that in one week, people will be killing from hunger.” …
When Job’s friends heard that one of their own was enduring his own hellish losses they came and sat with him for seven days in silence. Only later, as their friend’s faith faltered, and as he began to lose his mind in grief, did they made the mistake of thinking that he–more than themselves– must have done something to deserve such losses.
Their presence and silence were eloquent and wise… until…
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