Our life's journey and beyond

I read with keen interest the news about some Filipinos  trapped in the rubbles of an earthquake in New Zealand  a few days ago. The primary reason is that I am a Filipino and naturally interested in any major news involving Filipinos. The second reason is that my wife and I had planned  to move to New Zealand but had dropped the plan after her visa was denied in Dubai where our consultant sent the visa request.
My better half, a nurse, was offered a job as a caregiver in an institution, which I presume to be a hospice, in Auckland. It was a time when the world recession hit and the visa officer in Dubai said that the job offered to my wife could be done by the natives. We tried to rationalize the rejection with the thought that probably God, the Almighty, has other plans for us.
I am sad that some Filipinos who were reported to be taking an English proficiency test were among those buried under the rubble of a building where they were taking the exams when the strong quake rocked Christchurch, described as the second biggest city in NZ. It is tragic that the ill-fated Filipinos died in a foreign land where they had eyed to settle presumably to escape the economic difficulties back home.
How sad that they met their death while in their quest for a better life. But then that's what life is all about in this world - full of uncertainties. Too bad that science, which many people who had left the Faith try to put on a  new pedestal as some sort of a god, has not come up with an invention that could predict the future of each one of us.
So until science could invent such an instrument - which may take forever as  it has not even invented yet a simple gadget that can predict when and where a tremor would strike - we can only rely on our prayers to keep us away from harm. Our life's journey is fraught with dangers, but we who have kept the Faith know the calming effects of prayers
With that theme, I enjoin every believer to say our prayers for the early rescue of those who may still be alive under the earthquake's ruins and the repose of the souls of those who have taken their journey to the life beyond.