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<\/a>I’m here in the middle of a disaster zone grabbing breakfast with the rest of our emergency response team (ERT), thinking about what I\u2019ve seen so far\u00a0since I arrived.<\/p>\n
Getting up in the mornings after several aftershocks throughout the night is hard. I spent the first few nights in Kathmandu half asleep and half awake. And that\u2019s me\u2014I wasn\u2019t here for the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that shattered the lives of millions in Nepal and surrounding countries. The locals were still very terrified. Even if their homes were still intact, they have been sleeping outdoors for fear that the next time they wouldn\u2019t be so lucky.<\/p>\n
The first couple of days, I was in a haze. Jetlag and the rigorous work schedule had me so tired that I was on autopilot getting from the guesthouse to the office.<\/p>\n
But although I was exhausted, my heart was (and still is) broken. People are suffering immensely. Most lost their homes; many lost their loved ones. In that moment, one of our colleagues stopped and gasped in awe. What I saw when I looked up completely took my breath away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cBeauty in the brokenness,\u201d said Britt Celine, from ADRA Norway as she took a photo of beautiful Morning Glories blooming over what was left of a house destroyed by the quake. Though they had been greatly affected like most, they are our very own Nepali heroes, serving people impacted by the earthquake despite their own needs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I hadn\u2019t been thinking about how the Nepalese were caring for one another, offering each other food, clearing the rubble, and sharing tarps and tents with their neighbors during the rain.<\/p>\n Then there is the flood of international support. Humanitarian workers from all over the world have poured in to help the people of Nepal. And those who haven\u2019t been able to come have been praying and sharing words of encouragement and financial support.<\/p>\n The losses are great and unimaginable.<\/p>\n But every time there is a disaster, I see resilience in the human spirit and a spirit of service and compassion toward those who are suffering. It gives me hope that the brokenness will never win. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m here in the middle of a disaster zone grabbing breakfast with the rest of our emergency response team (ERT), thinking about what I\u2019ve seen so far\u00a0since I arrived.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[780,795,1,1053],"tags":[6,7,833,1069,426],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-nepal","category-uncategorized","category-volunteerism-service","tag-disaster-relief","tag-earthquake","tag-emergency-response-team-ert","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-volunteer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47285,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/47285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
One morning, our group was unusually quiet during our commute to the ADRA Nepal office. As I walked with a heavy heart I thought, \u201cI don\u2019t think I can bear another story from this earthquake. It\u2019s too sad. My heart is too heavy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n
I couldn\u2019t agree with her more.
Beauty in the brokenness.
Until then, I had been focusing on the sadness and desperation of the brokenness. But I wasn\u2019t thinking about how brave our ADRA Nepal staff had been.<\/p>\n\n
-Natalia L\u00f3pez-Thism\u00f3n<\/p>\n\n\n