Hello, dear family and friends.
This picture is one that shows some of the damage from last week's earthquake.
Compared to other places that have had earthquakes of this magnitude, Costa Rica made out extremely well. But, among the list of damage, a hospital has been condemned and hundreds of people lost their houses. Thankfully, they are hundreds and not thousands, but still, those hundreds of people are in need of new homes. We continue to have a copious number of light aftershocks each day (there were over 1200 within the first 3 days!). It's just a slight shaking of the ground, but I'm getting rather sick of them. Anyway, for the past week, the earthquake has been a topic of conversation with pretty much everyone I've seen. Kind of like what happened 11 years ago on this very day. It was even a Tuesday.
I had the opportunity to go to the 9/11 memorial when I was in the States in April, and 11 years seems like a long time in some ways, but for many, I'm sure it feels like it was just last week. It's hard to fathom all the disasters and catastrophes in this world, and how deeply so many, many people are affected by them. The only thing that comes to my mind is this: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God" (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
May God comfort each of us where we hurt, that we may in turn be able to comfort others,
Carrie
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