the helpers

this has been a crazy week: boston marathon bombing, texas fertilizer plant explosion, another big chinese earthquake, and other disasters i just haven't heard about / can't remember. but this mr. rogers quote has been floating around online and man is it a good one.
 
at life group the other night we were taking about theodicy. and i was saying that while earthquakes seem really bad, they create some of our most beautiful mountains, which in turn shapes many of our lakes, weather patterns, it goes on. likewise, the bad brings out the good in many people, you know?

i volunteered on friday with socal harvest and on saturday with compton initiative and felt like i should still be doing more. which is crazy, obviously. esp considering what i'm doing the next two weekends! but i do feel like it's not doing anything, you know? confession time: i want some sort of emergency to happen near me and i automatically spring into action. it's like that video of the bomb at the boston marathon. many people ran away, but some people actually ran towards the blast! ...but of course i don't wish this because that would mean bad things would have to happen to people... but anyway! how awesome is it that the boston police / feds / whomever figured out who the bombers were and caught "them" in less than a week! amazing, yo!

also, what boston showed about human nature