“The pencil of God has no eraser.” ~ Haitian Proverb
This morning I watched footage of a news reporter standing on top of a huge pile of rubble, listening to the desperate cries of two women trapped deep below, sadly reporting that there was no way possible to extract them…no machines, no diggers, no tools….no way at all to remove the debris to save these trapped lives.
This whole tragedy takes on a more personal note as a close friend of ours tries desperately to reach his brother who was visiting family in Haiti….the earthquake hitting only a day before he was scheduled to return home.
There have been countless images of children wandering the streets looking for their parents, children huddled beside the bodies of their parents. Stacks of corpses are beginning to line the streets, making it difficult to even walk. The true severity of the situation became stark as I watched Rene Preval, the President of Haiti, tell a CNN reporter that he had no idea where he was going to sleep or seek shelter because the presidential palace and all government buildings had been reduced to piles of rubble.
My love of photography always pulls me towards those images that capture the pain and strength of the human soul. Pictures that don’t need captions or subtitles…..when the story is written on faces and reflected in their eyes. I’m sure in the upcoming weeks, more and more tragic images will flood in….here are a few that stood out to me.
Please remember our family friend in prayer and positive thought as he continues to search for his brother.
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