Article February 21, 2005 Issue

AFTER THE TSUNAMI—WAVES OF LOVE

EMBRACING MY GLOBAL FAMILY WHEREVER I AM

By Annette Kreutziger-Herr

"You're blessed when you are at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule" (Matt. 5:3, Eugene Peterson, The Message).

This beatitude of Jesus has been helping me as my heart reaches out to the many thousands of people affected by South Asia's tsunamis. The words remind me to get outside myself—my sadness and confusion.

I had been overwhelmed by the extent of the tragedy: millions of people without homes, without family members, without the lives they once knew. As a German citizen living in Berlin, I was also deeply affected by reports of the many Europeans killed or missing in the wake of the disaster. For tourists from Europe, the coasts of Thailand, India, and Sumatra are the closest thing to a paradise on earth. And now it seems that paradise is lost forever.

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