Prayer Call

These past days have been laden with earthshaking realities. Our earth is groaning, and in its quiet silence it has shown how alive it is by moving. Its natural shift dominoed into changing so many lives that went with its movement.

- Romelinda Garces

The knee-jerk response came two-pronged from my vantage point. Fear and hope. In the area, people trembled with fear and anguish and the outpouring of support was a salve to their aching, questioning spirits, especially for those who lost someone dear aside from their hard-earned home.

In spite of heavy traffic on the onset, the first weekend since the North-quake sent many responders to the affected areas, bearing goods to help relieve the victims of the calamity. The least reached were the hinterlands that found some of the volunteers braving the tricky slopes and slight tremors that would briefly test their resolve to bring help to those in the far-flung areas.