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Isn’t it amazing how the world perspective can change in one minute? I look on CNN.com and see that every major news story is: “Haiti.” I sit in my comfortable office contemplating Caribbean red papaya and organically-grown whole wheat toast for breakfast, while millions plead for a bottle of water as they try to rescue or bury family members and friends. I have no idea what it must be like for persons and families to lose so much in just one minute. At least the news about Mark McGuire, Sarah Palin, and Leno-Conan has subsided. Many of us will go forward with new thankfulness for our blessings and do what we can do to help our brothers and sisters who live just off the coast of our blessed land.

To be speechless is to be humbled by something so tragic that very few words are appropriate. I can only sit in silence and then hang my head as I read the news from Haiti. I have no idea what it must be like for so many to lose so much. We may each ask, “What can I do to help?”