Brushed by Catastrophe: an Eye-witness Account of the Tsunami

going to give a trite response, "always stay at a Marriott hotel." But actually, until the reality of what has really happened began to set in, watching CNN, which is really all we get in viable international news of this type (apart from BBC, which also focuses on other scheduled programming, or the Thai channels, with the ever expanding pictures of sheer devastation, anguish, tragedy and sorrow with struggle to survive and cope, that the real message is that we really have witnessed an "Act of God" and that act seems to be speaking to the world in a "Biblical" way. This way has always been a quite simple message, which is that, while throughout life we focus on one melodrama or another, or on something we fear, such as terrorism, religious zealotry, and how that will be harm civilization, or on environmental problems or political problems, or we get caught up in our pursuits, goals and dreams, and in that process of loosing ourselves in our passions for these images, we forget the One that has brought the universe into existence, who sustains it for a time and dissolves it, while providing us with the sense of being and identity in the form of our sense of "I" and the light of awareness, which are really and always the emanation of the God, Being and Consciousness. So, maybe, as we have not been able to hear the inner voice, we have the voice of God speaking through the power of nature with such a force greater than the calamities we perpetuate on ourselves and each other that we might remember really Who the Author of the Creation is, reflect inward, and remember the source of the "I" and "Light" through which we build our identities.

Anyway, I'm alright and my family is alright.

Pieter

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