Australasia the continent has been assailed by fire, flood, cyclone and earthquake in recent months. Poor Christchurch has suffered it second major quake in 6 months, this the more deadly because of the time of day. The city is battered but not in ruins and is much the worse for wear. Many people are dead. So my heart goes out to New Zealand tonight and my prayers are with the trapped, the injured, the mourning, the rescuers and those who live in fear of what news or events may yet bring.
Nothing prepares us for disaster. Our modern lives are not built upon the certainty of calamity, but rather, its evasion. So when it comes, it's as if an unseen mountain has been suddenly dumped upon us, never mind that it was always on the grey periphery.
God bless Christchurch tonight.
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