unpreventable/preventable

184,000, the number of deaths that occurred due to the earthquake and Tsunami in the Indian Ocean December 26, 2004. 92,000-220,000, the number of deaths that is estimated to have occurred due to the earthquake in Haiti January 10,2010. 10,000 the expectation of death toll from the recent earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
$528 million, the amount raised after the Haiti earthquake of 2010.
$163 million, the amount raised after the Indian Ocean earthquake.
What do all of these disasters have in common? are they preventable or unpreventable? I recently heard one news commentator say that you cannot stop mother earth.

Add all these up and you have between 286,000 and 414,000 people that have died due to natural disasters. Add the money up and you have $691 million.

115,000 per day each and every day in the world, have you heard about these people lately? When was the last time you heard anything about these people that have died. Yes 115,000 PER DAY!!!! that is the number of estimated abortions that happen each and every day in the world! where does that compare to the 286 or 414,000 people?

What is the difference between 286,000 and 115,000? Could it be that one is preventable and one is unpreventable? Could it be that abortions are preventable and natural disasters are unpreventable? yet how much news coverage is there for the unborn babies that are killed before they can experience life? How much money is raised for them each year. A number that is preventable.

What about 400,000 the number of deaths that occur to child in the world due to starvation. Is starvation a preventable or unpreventable disaster?

Why so much money and coverage for unpreventable disaster and not so much help and money for preventable disasters?

What have you done today to help preventable disasters? What have you done today to help those who cannot help themselves. What if the amount of money for unpreventable disasters was given toward preventable disasters?

There will be many more unpreventable disasters, there could be no more unpreventable disasters if we as Americans would not be so selfish and think of 1. not 400,000; not 115,000. I cannot understand those numbers anyway but I can understand 1. think of 1 person other than you.

Trust

Have you ever thought of the meaning behind the word TRUST? We trust people with certain things and not with other things. We trust how many drivers on the road each an every day with our own lives, lets face it any person in any car could try and hit you, you trust they won't, yet we have trouble trusting a child at times. We trust pilots to fly us around and stay at a certain altitude based on a computer, how many times have you had computer troubles, yet you trust computers to keep a plane in the air. We trust telling people that are close to us our struggles in life, our down days yet we don't trust them with telling our financial struggles or joys for that matter. We trust an invisible God with our eternal destiny. We live each day trusting that, as we accept Jesus as our savior we will be in heaven some day dancing with Jesus, yet we struggle to trust God with our day to day agenda. We struggle to trust God with our finances, our marriages, our children, our day to day activities, we can accept eternal life and not trust our children, as we work so hard to protect them, our checkbook as we work so hard to keep it up and make "x" amount of money, our marriage. When was the last time we prayed together, not for meal or just whatever. But literally stopped and prayed as husband and wife? Trust, an easy word to define and understand maybe a harder word to live. I heard yesterday that if you make more than $32,000 a year you are in the richest 5% of the world. I also heard that if you have food, clothing and shelter everyday you are wealthier than 75% of this world population. Do you trust? why do you trust in? what do you trust in? have you seen God work a miracle in your life because you trusted in him? Trust who?