Quoting Tara

   All of us involved in Haiti have had to answer the question of why the earthquake happened.  I have struggled my way through some answers, but the best one I read is on the blog of full-time missionaries that I met briefly last year and then spent some more time with when in Haiti earlier this month.  Tara Livesay said on her blog yesterday:

"There is no "reason" for this earthquake - well, other than some tectonic plates moving around. That's all. It was not so a bunch of adoptive parents could get their kids home (like God loves them so much He sent an earthquake to get their kids home on Humanitarian Parole). It is not so the world would recognize and learn about Haiti (although I suppose that is good). It is not because God is punishing Haitians for something that happend 200 years ago in some Voudou ceremony (sorry Pat Robertson). The reason it happened is simple - uninteresting - laws of geology. We don't need theologians to tell us. We don't need to debate."

   Very well said Tara.  It is a lot simpler than we try to make it.  We try to makes the questions of why so much harder than they have to be.

MATT