remmy goes to shanghai

so i just wanted to post a short update on some more of what i’ve heard about the earthquake in sichuan. as the days pass it seems the death toll continues to rise. i read somewhere today that the number was up to 12,000. the number is mind bogglingly huge…almost too large to understand i think. reports indicate that there are, of course, still thousands more missing or unaccounted for.

i have to admit that it’s taken a couple days for some of this to really sink in. i think if i were in the u.s. the enormity of the tragedy would strike me…when you’re at home and something terrible happens in your home you feel it intensely. but it took me a couple days to really connect the loss that was happening here in china. this isn’t my home so i suppose it’s hard to identify with it immediately. but as i’ve talked with people and seen my roommate, who is chinese, respond with sadness and inability to even sleep at night it’s become more real…the loss and grieving of the chinese people right now.

my roommate actually stayed up last night creating a video/slideshow of pictures she collected from all over the place. she sent it to me today to watch and as i sat at home in my office, my world was finally rocked. it’s hard not to feel the pain and grief in the faces and images as they roll across the screen.

so for those of you at home who are still trying to understand what’s happening here, i thought i would share the video. i hope it will help you to more fully connect to the tragedy here so that your prayers for the people of china will be passionate and full of god’s love for these people.

(sorry i tried to embed and it seems that because i have to access this blog through a proxy because the govt blocks it, i can’t get the embed video function to work.)

click here to watch the video on youtube.