“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-MaryanneWilliamson

Haiti earthquake: death toll may hit 200,000

Anger has turned to violence on the streets of Haiti as survivors lose patience with the painfully slow process of getting international aid after the earthquake that authorities say may have killed 200,000 people.

“We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies,” Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Haiti’s interior minister told Reuters. “We anticipate there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number.”

Around 40,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves.

When the situation in Haiti first happened it seemed so far from home like it was a world away and it was hard for me to feel the tragedy. When a friend of mine who goes to Haiti regularly on mission trips shared her pain and personal stories of people she knows there I begin to go from sympathy to empathy. As the poorest country in the Western hemisphere it’s important that we all reach out and help in any way we can.

Donate to Haiti relief, visit www.redcross.org or call 1-800-REDCROSS. Mobile donors can text “Haiti” to 90999 to make a $10 contribution.
If you can’t donate financially you can offer your prayers for the missing people to be found, families to be reunited, people to be healed and for resources to be be supplied. Let’s do what we can to help Haiti by being an extension of Love and hope.