It’s still….Haiti

Even a after a week, the sometimes hopeful and sometimes horrific news of Haiti dominates us. Leno or Conan…no one really cares. Tent cities, rubble, lack of supplies, medicine, treatment…as I type people are still trapped underneath tons of rubble. Hope is waning, but the need is soaring. I have been encouraged at the intiative and response of many individuals, groups, and churches. But on the day that we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I wonder. I wonder what he would say about the poverty that remains in our nation, but the poverty that remains world wide. The United States makes up 1% of the world’s population but possesses 40% of the world’s resources. Disaster amplifies poverty. The quake was a disaster. Disaster continues in the aftermath as people die form secondary infections…But let’s remember one thing. Poverty is a disaster for all of humanity. Even after the quake aftermath is cleared up the disaster of poverty will remain. so what then? Aid organizations leave and we take the training wheels off of the bike that has no wheels…then what?

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