I can’t help but be rocked to the core when I see all of the devastation in Japan.  I get teary and feel helpless which pushes me to a very sympathetic and empathetic spiritual place.  A place where I take my helplessness to find the ways that I can positively contribute.

I have a deep-down core awareness that the people, in and of this tragedy, are people just like me.  They are people with loved ones, people who have had success, people who have failed, feeling people, thinking people…people.

A friend of mine who has two children with two different genetic disorders shared with me that “it is the times of hardship that bring out the best in people because most people really want to help”.

As much as my core is rocked by the devastation itself I find that I am equally, if not more impacted, by the positive way in which people are responding.

What ways are you seeing people respond positively to/in tragedies?