people, people.

Photo taken from Tributes.com.

Photo taken from The Star Online.

Photo taken from The Christian Science Monitor.

Video of the tsunami can also be found here.

Photo taken from Reader's Digest Version.

Photo taken from The Sydney Morning Herald.

Photo taken from Blog Watch.

I remember looking at the broken pieces of the ceiling and the flood of water on the ground in the PKV room and feeling devastated. 

Defeat is one of the most overwhelming feelings to bear, and defeat is what our Japanese brothers and sisters are feeling.

Even if they rebuild their lives, where do they begin? 

From the pieces of rubble around them, because there is nothing left.

How can we watch people in their pain,

and still seek gain for ourselves?

Where has it gone?

The heart for people?

Are we not human anymore?

Our hearts are heavy.

The destruction is greater than we first imagined,

and we find ourselves crying to God 

to have mercy upon the Japanese people.

The time between the mighty earthquake and the tsunami

was simply too short for many to escape.

-- Update from Sapporo, Japan.

Pray for mercy.