Good grief!  As if the cyclone Nargis hitting Myamar wasn’t grief enough for Asia, now a huge earthquake hit China!  Seems as if Mother Nature is conducting a large scale massacre out there!  I was reading that some people think that the tragedy has been worsened emotionally because of the policy of each family only being allowed to have one child, but I am wondering if each family had been allowed MORE children, if the death toll would have been higher! 

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to be callous; there is nothing more tragic in life than to outlive your children.  The point I think I’m trying to make is that the families might be grieving the loss of three or four children, instead of one.  The loss of any child is more grief than anyone should have to bear; the loss of more than one I just simply cannot even begin to imagine how deep that would be.  I have a friend who had three sons, and she lost all three of them over the span of two years, two to car accidents, and one to cancer.  It broke my heart to see the pain she suffered during those two years.