Prayers for Japan

I am writing this blog today in hopes of uniting our many prayers for all those who have been and are being affected by  today's horrific earthquake. It is too easy in such hard times to give up and not see that there can be hope in times of such heartache. It is unimaginable to try to understand what the Japanese people are feeling right now, it's hard to watch as the lives of all those affected are washed away in such a horrific natural disaster. It is also tempting to turn of the television and the news and distance ourselves from the calamities facing other countries around the world. We are all facing our own storms, our own waves of uncertainty but we need to look beyond ourselves as well and pray for each-other and for our brothers and sisters near and far. 

Please keep Japan and all those affected by today's earthquake in your thoughts and prayers.

Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy. In the day of my trouble I will call to you, for you will answer me.

Psalm 86:3-7