Deniece did a fantastic job of highlighting the amazing response of PfD to the earth quake in Haiti last week. While I too immediately was taken by the enormity of the tragedy and seeming impossibility of the possible reconstruction efforts, the quake also made its impact known on a personal level for me.
The university I attended for my undergraduate degree is Saint Martin's University, a small liberal arts college in Washington State associated with the Benedictine monestary, an order of the Catholic church. Saint Martin's drew many of its students from Bellarmine Preparatory School, a Catholic high school in Tacoma, WA. I have close friends who graduated from Bellarmine. 
One of the Bellarmine graduates of 2005, Molly Hightower, was working at an orphanage in Haiti when the earthquake hit last week. Her family recieved word that she had not survived this tragic event early on January 15th. The news rocked our community. A close friend of mine knew Molly and her family very well, and my heart goes out to all that did.
It's sometimes impossible for me to fathom the widespread destruction in Haiti. When I read of tens of thousands dead as the result of this horrific natural disaster it's difficult to understand. It becomes a little more comprehensible when the story hits home, even in such a tragic manner.
