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God is, as always, right there in the suffering. God is under the rubble with survivors and those who have died. God is lying on a stretcher with the injured patient and crying with the traumatised child. We have a beautiful piece of artwork. fashioned in Haiti from banan fibre and leaf. It reads, 'Pov yo se Kris La' (the poor are Christ) and depicts a peasant washing another's feet. This is the message of Christ crucified: God suffered death for us and shares in our suffering now. S/He weeps with us over the plight of Ayiti but also gives us the strength and will to overcome these terrors through acts of love and faith. This is why Haitians are able to survive for so long in totally adverse conditions: they are people of great faith and many, sadly, have lived their whole lives in total hardship and struggle. Many have willingly gone without food for days in the past, in order to pay their children's school fees or to feed other more needy family members. The Haitian people are an example to those of us who live in ease. If you want to know where God is in Haiti, ask a few Haitians and they will tell you. Our experience of Haiti was that questions asked may be, 'How am I going to eat?' 'How can we pay for that?' 'Who will help me do this for my children?' but never, 'Where is God?'
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Timothy Rees' hymn "God is love, let heaven adore him" includes these lines:
"And when human hearts are breaking
Under sorrow's iron rod,
Then they find that self-same aching
Deep within the heart of God."
That is the real meaning of the cross; in the life and death of Jesus, God entered into the whole of human experience, took it into himself, and thus embraced his people to walk with us and carry us through it.
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