sending love across the world

This picture shows the extensive flooding.
Captain Chanchai Kantawong / AFP - Getty Images http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24482304/displaymode/1176/rstry/24478247/

My heart and prayers truly go out to the families and people of Myanmar. But as "heart warming" as that is mostly I hope that together we all can help them out somehow. it seems that in America we are so quick to say, "Oh, how terrible!" and then as soon as it leaves the top spot of the news we forget all about it.
Why do we so easily forget things? It's like unless life allows them to affect us personally it really doesn't matter.

But it does. Doesn't it - or it should. We cannot survive apart from each other. We truly were not wired that way. Life and God creates this longing for other people in our lives - to connect with. And through these connections we truly experience a FULL Life. Right. i mean the whole reason for Jesus the Christ - his whole mission wasn't just heaven but it was to give us Life to the Fullest, right. if fact we are encouraged to celebrate with those who celebrate and cry with those who weep from pain and wombs. So maybe just maybe there is some weird connection with me having a broken heart for people I don't even know on the other side of the world.

This is one of the first opportunities I have seen to help out http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24488610/. I know very little about this aid agency or how the money works, so I am not saying that you need to send all this money to them. But I do hope we can find enough compassion in our hearts to do something.

Just do something and connect with the families - our families and friends in Myanmar.