Japan

I know by now all of you have heard about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.  And I know that most of you are praying so asking you to pray would be silly, but I'm asking you to pray.  Some of you may know that I went to Japan last May to visit my friend Andrea.  It was a great trip and to say the people I met there were wonderful is an understatement.  Looking at the pictures and the videos of what has happened there makes my heart hurt.  I'm not sure what to pray, yet I pray anyway.  I was reminded today in church of Romans 8:25-27 "But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God."
If you would like to know specific prayer requests from someone living in Japan, please go to Andrea's blog.
I'm hoping to post some pictures all next week of my trip to Japan...