...The worst of all events that can befall our selves, our loved one, or our people are the appalling if not killing stretches of our lives in which God is silent and, in that silence, appears to torment us or someone near to us for no reason discernible by the human mind...In the times of his absence or silence, I've never felt that he was prevented from reaching me, only that he was choosing his distance for unstated reasons...
Reynolds Price, Letter to a Man in the Fire, p 52, 58
(Thank you Rene for the quote).
We passed within 20 miles of Joplin, MO on May 5th. Today I will not be sending any of our happy adventure or frivolous pictures. Instead I will concentrate my thoughts on all the people of the world who have and are suffering what I pray none of you will ever experience. Tragedy does not discriminate.
Shalom, Heather . . .
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