Thank you for sharing this…shock is a good word. My prayer are with them and those effected by the Earthquake.

Shock! Sadness! Awe of how the Earth can create such disasters! Sadness! Tears! Concern! Shock! Prayers! Puts things in perspective. Prayers! Shock!

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I don’t know if you wrote that GIC, but if you did I take my hat off to you.

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I think you said more then you know you did with this post!

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Heart wrenching stuff GIC.

And I’m pleased (probably the wrong word) that they are more open with the media on this and accepting outside help.

Apparently they have the best army in the world to cope with this type of disaster, not much recompense I know.

I feel so sad. Being a Chinese myself, I feel the connection to them yet I have no strength nor the ability to help them thus all I can do is pray for them..

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I don’t know — if I can stop crying …

The laws of the universe are so easy to understand if we just tune it and realize.

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Hi GIC - top post mate - such a pity it takes such an event to prompt / create it.

I wanted to say something about the smallest glimmer of hope being the only thing we sometimes have to cling too but i can’t articulate it and to be honest i’m just to sad to even try.

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Hey there Gareth..
When I heard this I thought did think of yourself and your new wife and if family and friends of yours are ok.. not knowing what part you have been in …
Your post is possibly the best I have seen and a low Bow to you and your friend
Regardless of where you are from people are people…
Regardless of your language grief always sounds the same..
the sound of a parent crying over their lost child sounds the same regardless of where you are…
We have been watching for appeals contact numbers down here, the chinese Community in sydney has started a relief hotline to try and help…
The chinese Government to their Credit is doing everything they can, unlike Burma… and for this they must be congratulated…
The test will come over the next months and years as the true cost to people becomes known….

Just amazing pictures Gareth who ever took them. I heard on the news that this area is still experiencing after shocks and people are afraid to go back indoors. I couldn’t begin to imagine how terrifying that must be.

I reckon the dalai lama and his tibetan skinheads are responsible for this.

hang them

Hello Gareth.
It makes me think how lucky I am

Thanks for sharing GIC,

Up there with the most powerful post in the blogosphere - we’ll broadcast this link over at blogcatalog where we’ve over 3,000 readers of GSTF….

We heard that up to 2 million people have been displaced since the quake….

Are other nations pitching in to assist as per Burma but without the blocks?

This post made me cry as my heart aches for the collective pain and anguish that so many over there are going through. My voice, my thoughts and prayers are little, but I send them anyway.

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Hello from New York! This is so terrible. I can’t believe how many kids died. I know China will recover from this though.

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I don’t know how anyone can get through this post w/o tears.

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Thanks for sharing this - all the strength and power of consciousness to you Gareth! It is so hard to see anything positive in this situation right now and any reconcilliation, hopefully with time people will be able to build back their lives, but of course nothing will rebuild their lost loved ones.

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Great post and amazing captures, telling more than words alone could possibly tell. Lots of courage and strength will be needed by the survivers of this huge disaster, and my prayers will be added to the so many from around the world. God Bless

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Well written Gareth,like Dad,how lucky are we,not much consolation but i heared the chinese army are the best to deal with a situation like this.

Gareth, and Shiley, thank you for presenting this opportunity for us to know better the reality of this disaster, so far from where most of us live…thank you,everyone, for prayer, don’t feel that it isn’t that much b/c you can’t be there to help instead. If you are someone who believes in prayer, then please, continue in that for these people in China…

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Thank you for sharing. I’m grateful to live in California. When we have earthquakes we talk about the devastation, but we have building codes that have prevented these types of disasters so far. It puts things in perspective.

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Gareth thank you so much for sharing - You too, Shirley as I came here from http://www.blogcatalog.com

I don’t know if you know the impact you have made with this post, but I know that I will spread the word.

These are the last days and the birth pangs, Jesus spoke about in Matthew 24 are coming to pass at an evermore increasing frequency. Unfortunately, for the lost, this is only the begining of the troubles about to come upon them during the 7-year tribulation. I’m sorry that it sounds like I’m preaching, but everyone needs to know that all this was prophesied in the Bible over 2000 years ago.

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Thank you, Gareth.

Let’s join all those in prayer for help and understanding, certain and in joy that this world and all its manifestations are overcome and healed. We see only the past.

Dear Heavenly Father,

we come to You to ask for help in the face of untold suffering and pain. You created us in love and perfect peace. Let us be reminded and experience that we and everyone are still safe in Your love. No matter what we may think, You love us. Therefore, we do not need to worry and be afraid, nor does anyone else. We trust in You to provide us with the vision and understanding to see this world free from our mistaken judgments and interpretations. Behind all that, in Your light, is Your will for perfect happiness for all of us obvious. There we are healed and restored to peace and sanity and perfect safety. Thank You, Father. We love You.

Thank you for praying with me, trusting in God’s perfect love.

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This is so terrible.

All,
Prayers are fine but direct action would be good also. Give money, give blood and see what other actions are being requested is out there in the aid organisation web sites.
The Chinese are getting help from Taiwanese, Japanese, Singaporean and other countries in the disaster area but money, blood and other things can be done from afar.

Other GSTF regulars, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR A RELIGIOUS DEBATE, hold off.

Gareth — thank you so much for bringing these images to the world. It is truly a shocking disaster, the after effects lasting forever.

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I don’t know whether I can believe good man will have good future, but I know I can believe now I am crying.

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For Australians interested in donating: perhaps try http://www.redcross.org.au/ourservices_aroundtheworld_emergencyrelief_Chinaearthquake.htm

I don’t know whether our donation will make a difference but I know we should try to help.

Our thoughts are with those suffering loss in incomprehensible terms…and we know that the people will eventually rebuild because that is our nature.

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The earthquake shook the earth, but the lives of so many are now broken, and so many people are having to face an unknown future, which is certainly not the future they thought it was.

I am sat at home, in a house that is standing upright, with three lovely children inside it, playing happily. I think of the Mums and Dads in China who are staring at devastation, having lost their houses, and their children. Any I cry. Tears are not going to help. I feel helpless, but I will look to find opportunities to help.

Thankyou Gareth - and to your friend.

Thanks for sharing.

The Austrian Red Cross and the Caritas are already collecting donations for China and get support from TV and newspapers.

Words do fail for catastrophes like this one.

The help and solidarity shown from Chinese citizens to aid the ones in need, is a great step forward for Chinas international reputation.
This positive action will maybe even iron out some impressions the world got in the ‘Tibet - Olympics’ affair.

Our pity and soul is with the victims.

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Thanks for sharing this Gareth.

As they say pictures paint a thousand words and a dozen pictures are even better.

It is so heart breaking to see all this suffering, not only after quake in China but also after the cyclone in Burma. Perhaps the only good thing afer such events is how we all seem able and willing to rally around and help the affected people.

Lets hope the situation in Burma clears up and “foreign” aid is allowed in.

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We can never feel the pain and the torment of the survivors. Lives changed in an instant.

50,000 may be a number for us but for the relatives of the victims 50,000 spells devastation.

May they be strong at their darkest hour.

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did you see the picture of the guy pulled out still alive after a week under rubble?

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All hearts are with the people of the quakes. Hope they find strength to fight on and renew their lives with positiveness.