Espy's Journal: More on Tangalle Trip

Last week on Wednesday 21st Steve, me, and a small group of other ADRA staff went down to a project location about 6 hours' drive from Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. Our mission was to finalize the closure of a tsunami relief operation in the town of Tangalle (pronouced as Tango). My work down there included double checking that the material present in the office matched the invetory list that was given to ADRA and to make sure that any other equipment or material that was sent to another project was noted down and accounted for in the inventory. There was also a lot of manual labor involved as you will see in the pictures. Over all it was a great learning experience and a fun activity.

We drove along the coastline and saw beautiful beaches and others that were kinda sketchy. We also saw buildings that had been damaged by the 2004 tsunami. It's amazing to see how high the waves must have been in order to create the kind of damage that I saw.

Initially God created man to "have dominion over all creation". In the book of Psalm we're told that humans, referred to as man, were made a little lower than the angels. We were created to have power over nature but because of our lack of wisdom in taking care of nature, we are suffering the consequences of an overpowering natural world. The sea just don't convey the same message to me that it did before the tsunami.