Pray for the people of Sichuan Province, China!

For most of us, that's all we can do...but it's the most & the best we can do at this time. The people of China need our prayers!

The situation is beyond desperate. It seems so sad & hopeless, but I'm praying that God will (and partly through our prayers) be able to bring some good out of all this for His children there that were affected by this earthquake.

A week ago only & already the death toll is nearing 35,000, with more than 250,000 injured. That's a quarter of a million people. Previously I could only imagine what the people were going through, but through indvidual stories of people's lives affected, I'm starting to be able to feel an infintesimal fraction of what these people are feeling. Stories like the one I saw on a news clip on my computer today about a boy, who, being the only son to middle-aged farmers, lost both of his arms while climbing out of school during the quake. He cried (and I did too) while laying in the hospital telling the reporter how he begged the doctors to save at least one of his hands. His parents were having a hard time knowing whether or not it would have been better if he died.
But the father gave an encouraging word despite it all...he told his son:

"Rest! Recover first! Then we'll talk about the future! Don't forsake your hopes & dreams! Life goes on!"

Talk about hope in the absolute thick of despair...my prayers are with him, his family & all the people of Chengdu & Sichuan Province...as I know yours will be too..