I couldn’t watch the news anymore but then I knew I have to…the news would just bring me to tears and I knew when I start crying I couldn’t stop, sometimes I think that being too emotional and sympathetic is a curse, but I cant help it, its who I am and its how I was raised.

It was Friday afternoon when I saw the devastating news…it was all over the television, the radio and the world wide web. At first I didn’t pay any heed to it for what else was new? New Zealand was hit by an earthquake, followed by China and Japan. When I got home that afternoon and had the time to think of what I saw earlier my heart sank…I felt sick and I couldn’t move, with shaking hands I decided to turn the television on only to find myself staring at the disaster infront of me. I felt like I was watching the movie 2012 again only to find out that I wasn’t sitting inside a movie theatre but I was watching it on the news…an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 has hit Japan and it was followed by a gigantic tsunami. I was fond of watching disaster movies for it made me think…what if that happens, what am I going to do?  Then again looking at the disaster that hit Japan made me want to turn off the T.V and shut myself off from the world.

I couldn’t bear seeing people suffer…but then again who am I to question what is going on right now? From the never ending protests and the call of freedom in the middle east and the genocide going on in Libya, to the earthquake that happened in New Zealand…and now the disaster in Japan. What is going on?? Some would say that the end of the world is coming and that we are being punished for our sins…but then again when the first flood came and only Noah, his family and the animals he had in his ark with him were saved didn’t God make a promise? Didn’t He make a covenant with man at that point, that never again will he destroy what he created…so who are we to question his love and what is happening around us?

I don’t believe in the end of the world…if the end of the world or the end of days will come I knew God would be merciful…He loves us, despite of what we do and our continued abuse of His love, He loves us and will never punish us in the ways we are thinking.

If Judgment Day will come and I am caught unaware I would want to spend it with my family and the people that I love. I would want to be at home when it happens and would ask God for forgiveness even if its quite late, if I can ask him to spare my family and take me instead I would be forever grateful. I know that the God we have is the God of mercy and the God of forgiveness…He can forgive, He is only waiting for us to accept him with open arms and follow Him…the path that He has made for us isn’t all straight and filled with happiness, for he who follows Him must know that along the way we will face challenges, some we might think that its too much but then again He wouldn’t give us any sufferings if He knows we cannot handle them…

Prayer…I must admit I’m not a very spiritual person but I am a Catholic, I know what I believe in and I know my faith in him is strong. Prayer is the only way we can get thru this…we can surpass  everything if we believe in His love…for His love knows no boundaries and no limits.

 I am one with the world in praying for the victims of the recent calamities that, the victims of the greedy leaders in the middle east who thinks that power is everything, I am one with the world in praying for hope and peace…and that may we become stronger individuals after all these has come to pass and that one day we may look back and find the strength to say that ‘we made it…’