Post by Rev Nimue on Dec 29, 2012 22:53:21 GMT -5
While I was going through videos and music, I stumbled upon some videos depicting the 2004 Tsunami that devastated the world! I watched the 7 part series and was re-living what had happened in the age of Pisces. At the time my daughter was only a few months old and I remember holding her tight as I was watching the broadcasts on the news of the Tsunami disaster and not being able to put into words what I had seen, what I had felt and what those poor souls had felt themselves.
I don't pretend to know what those people have felt or what they have gone through, but I was sincerely moved by how the people came together after such a disaster had shook their very existence. I wept when I saw the pain and anguish that those people went through losing their loved one's or trying to save others in the middle of this event.
All of these stories are the memories that they shared. Memories of the horror and the pain that they experienced. I can't imagine what I would've done or how I would've been after such an event.
What touched me the most was when one of the women said that the only person she found was her husband, but she had lost 5 people that day. She said that it is a test ... for her to be the best person that she could be, to love and to help others. That this was what she learnt from the whole experience.
I strive myself, daily to be a better person, to look at others with love, trust, compassion and understanding and after seeing this 7 part series and what these people shared from their memories of this devastating event, it pushes me to do so even harder. By sharing their stories and their memories, it helps me to need to live each day as though it were my last and to cherish the family and friends that I have and to let them know even more on a daily basis.
I don't pretend to know what those people have felt or what they have gone through, but I was sincerely moved by how the people came together after such a disaster had shook their very existence. I wept when I saw the pain and anguish that those people went through losing their loved one's or trying to save others in the middle of this event.
All of these stories are the memories that they shared. Memories of the horror and the pain that they experienced. I can't imagine what I would've done or how I would've been after such an event.
What touched me the most was when one of the women said that the only person she found was her husband, but she had lost 5 people that day. She said that it is a test ... for her to be the best person that she could be, to love and to help others. That this was what she learnt from the whole experience.
I strive myself, daily to be a better person, to look at others with love, trust, compassion and understanding and after seeing this 7 part series and what these people shared from their memories of this devastating event, it pushes me to do so even harder. By sharing their stories and their memories, it helps me to need to live each day as though it were my last and to cherish the family and friends that I have and to let them know even more on a daily basis.