Where are the words

Looking at Marco Dormino's dramatic rescue photo I am reminded that I haven't put up a post on the Haiti disaster. I suppose that the enormity of this level of human suffering is impossible to respond to adequately with just words.

Certainly the tragedy has been on our minds. Helen drew us into it in some well-chosen words in the intercession on Sunday morning.

From our plenty, we will try to give generously and sacrificially to the needy and those who are making supreme efforts to support them. It may be enough or it may not. But we and many from the whole human family will do what we can.

And we who live in the "shaky isles" may perhaps say to ourselves, "There, but for the grace of God, go I". It's not good theology, of course, but perhaps it's a reminder of our frailty in the face of nature.