If you haven’t heard about the tragedy in Haiti, pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV. It is a disaster of epic proportions in a country that was already in disastrous shape. I feel for all those dead, injured, or otherwise impacted.
On the home front, a good friend of mine lost the offices of his business last night in a fire that burned them to the ground. Also lost were his boat and the company mascot, a beautiful dog. I hadn’t immediately thought of it but what that dog must have gone through as the building burned down around him but it had to have been hell on earth. No one (that we know of) was there or hurt in the fire but then there was no one there to get the dog out either.
Since I helped with the installation of a computer-based surveillance system, I got a couple of calls from the fire investigator asking for anything I had from the system that could help with their investigation. I was able to provide them some alerts that I got over the day that may or may not be of assistance. Unfortunately, since the system the data was recorded on was in the office, the data isn’t readily, if it will ever be, available.
So where is the supreme being I ask and why do I ask? I had not really thought about it until some do gooders came to my door right after I got off the phone with the investigator. They were talking to people about the tragedy in Haiti and asking what we thought God had to do with it and why. Perhaps they eventually were going to get around to asking for donations but I did not let it get that far. I said I didn’t believe in a supreme being.
When asked why that was so, I said science was much more compelling than religion and that were there truly a supreme being overseeing us all, I couldn’t image that we should have so many tragedies befalling us. I wish I had thought to mention my friend’s, his family’s, and his employee’s loss. It sure is closer to home.