Tragedy everywhere

If you look hard and close enough, you can find tragedy in every corner of this beautiful blue planet of ours. The death toll from the recent cyclone in Bangladesh is now over 3,000 and is expected to rise much higher. Hundreds of thousands are without food and water. Closer to home, the husband of a co-worker died of a heart attack over the weekend. Another young girl has disappeared in Houston, and her parents are frantic. Car crashes, cancer, drought, famine, flood, murder....you name it. It goes on every single day. There comes a point where you have to just stop thinking about it or you'll go mad with sadness. As bad as Bush is, and considering all the damage he's doing to this once-great country of ours, it still pales in comparison when the tragedy strikes close to home. Perspective is needed. Grief must be confronted. The closer the tragedy, the more it hurts. It's times like these, when there seems to be an unlimited amount of injustice in the world, that the existence of a caring God seems pretty implausible.