A few years ago I sat in a crowded theater and watched a movie entitled “Hotel Rwanda” it was heartbreaking and inspiring and there are images that have haunted me since and lines that have resounded in my head. There is this moment in the film with the Protagonist makes a plea to journalists to record and show the horrible events taking place in his country and surely the people who see what he records will be able to help… the journalist responds in effect that there is no point, sure it’s horrible but people will see the images and will say “oh that’s horrible” and will turn back to their dinners and will forget. Of course I paraphrase but you get the idea.

Now there is another horrible event that has taken places through our televisions and our blogs and our twitter accounts. We have seen live feeds, and have seen grief stricken pleas and horrible images.Haiti, and place that already needed help has been devastated by an earthquake. And I do mean devastated in one of the worst ways.

“Hotel Rwanda” was a movie about a genocide and the events in Haiti have been brought about by an earthquake, so I do get that it’s a bit different. But we can DO something, and I’m not saying that we all need to pack our bag and take a flight to hand out water – really they don’t need that, but we can do other things. There are easy ways to donate – you can even text a donation that benefits the Red Cross and just adds a small fee to your cell phone bill, instead of lunch out one day this week you can go and donate blood. In Nashville there is an organization called Project Cure that sends medical supplies to countries and you can volunteer your time or money or items… or all of the above. I’m selfish and I know that, but if we all do a little bit, then as a whole we can do so much together.