Now What? Back to Normal?

It was in the personal tragedy we felt our unity. Waves swept away Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians with a ferocious indifference. Once again, unified in the face of catastrophe, we hit the pause button on our own man-made conflicts. But I also watch us inch back to "normal." On Page One, the fury of nature shares space again with the folly of humanity. The victims of nature make room for the victims of man-made conflict. It's impossible to watch this unfold and not wonder why people need tragedy to remind us of our humanity. And why we manufacture disaster when nature provides quite enough of its own. (Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe, January 9, 2005)
And what about me? As I continue to search for a job, somehow I long for normalcy. Yet I also long to reach out and let God use me to reach humanity; Christ's love through me touching the hurting and lost.