Fr. Don's Daily Reflection - September 23, 2021
Psalm 62: “In you alone is my soul at rest. My help comes from you.”
Dear Will,
Thanks for your note of early this month when you were in Haiti for both earthquake and tropical storm! The people of Haiti are like a contemporary Job – everything possible thrown at them, and now the wrenching photos of Haitians being flown back to Haiti from their attempted migration. That is so sad. Right now, it just haunts me.
What a sad world we live in. The plight of women in Afghanistan, the Delta virus, poor Haiti, another killing at a university, threats in Korea.... Plenty of reasons to pray but wishing there was more being done for suffering people.
It makes any problems an old man may have with life or limb seem so petty. Most of us in our network of alumni/friends live in such comfort and even safety. It’s hard to believe that we all live on the same planet.
Our alumnus Mark Vande Hei is up in space, able to see this earth as one jewel in space. From that perspective it must be hard to imagine it as torn up by so much suffering, inequality, and deprivation.
You and your work (Reiser Relief) are an encouraging light, and there are many agencies working to help beaten and battered people. May their faith – also beaten and battered – offer them hope and a better future.
Don
Psalm 27: “I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness / in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong; / be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord!”
