ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EARTHQUAKE, A PRAYER FOR HAITI WRITTEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DISASTER ________________________________________ By your grace, we can suffer and struggle, Smile and dance Sing and HOPE... That the sun will rise tomorrow brighter! Lord, our God, after the disaster, We did not manage to count all our dead, Or give them a proper burial. The number is staggering: 100,000? 200,000? No one knows! Death strikes everywhere: the bodies are lying everywhere. Each family is in tears: the whole nation is in mourning. God of all comfort, God of all hope Lift us, O Lord, lift our country. Lift us in the eyes of all people, Before all the witnesses to our sinister ordeal. Grant that this piece of land bequeathed by our ancestors, Irrigated by our tears, fertilized by our tears, Be reborn and flourish like a tropical flower. Excerpt from the prayer After the Quake. Written immediately after the January 2010 earthquake by a Haitian national living abroad. Provided by UMCOR Haiti.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:30:00 +0000
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