No one's laughing at God

We discovered Regina Spektor in December during one of Amazon's $5 CD deals. I was listening to her album Far one night as background music when the song "Laughing With" came on. Something about the song captured me instantly. I had to stop working and give it my full attention. I found the video on YouTube and watched it over and over. It made me cry.

Speaking of crying, I started hearing about the devastation in Haiti sometime late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning (I had a daughter with a stomach virus and we were up all night long as she continued to wake and heave---Haiti could wait, I thought). In my lack-of-sleep state Wednesday morning, we slugged our way through the school day with the youngest recovering on the couch, but I kept hearing more about Haiti.

Finally, I couldn't put it off any longer---I searched online to find out what had happened. My 11-year-old was standing near me when she heard me say, "Oh, my God," in an audible, non-blasphemous, serious question to the Lord. Tears stung my eyes as I began reading. Concern in her voice, she wondered what I was finding out. I started reading out loud. She had tears in her eyes, too.

We feel so helpless. What can we do? We can pray. We can give. We can distance ourselves from Pat Robertson (we were never that close anyway). And we can listen to Regina---after all, sometimes it takes a skeptic to convey truth in a more honest way than on airways "safe for the whole family":

No one laughs at God in a hospital

No one laughs at God in a war

No one's laughing at God when they're starving

or freezing or so very poor

One thing's for sure: No one's laughing at God in Haiti right now.

And despite what some wrongly presume, God's not laughing either.