Days following the quake, heavy rain caused mudslide in the already hard hit area, burying construction crews and rescue workers, washing away the main road that had just been repaired. The site after the mess is difficult for anyone to behold, but what amazes us all is the strength of those ordinary Chinese People, their immeasurable love and devotion for the loved ones.

Five days after the earthquake, a group of rescue workers found the body of a young woman inside rubble. She was in the kneeling position. Her back hunched over supporting the crumbled ceiling, her arms stretched forward, her hands thrust firmly into the muddy earth. There was no life in her. As the rescue workers walked away, suddenly, the team leader seemed to understand something. He hurried back to the woman’s side and reached underneath her body. There, in the tiny shelter that the young woman created by using her body as protective shield, was a baby, about 3 months old, alive, unhurt and sleeping soundly still. Inside baby’s clothing, he found also a cell phone. On it was a message. “My dear baby: if you’re alive, remember, I love you.” People soon gathered about them and there was not a dry eye in the crowd.

One by one, stories like that emerge, spread and touch people from all over the world. We heard about how another young mother lay dying but still managed to breastfeed her baby so that the child would not starve to death; a young couple hovered over their three-year old daughter to protect her from the falling debris. The little girl survived the quake, but both of her parents perished. Also, at a collapsed school site, a father used his bare hands, digging for hours to free his buried son. And another mother in her fifties, traveled thousands miles to the heart of the disaster area look for her twenty-year-old son. “I have to find him,” she said, “even if just a body.” Luckily, the moment she arrived, her son was found alive and was rescued.

There are too many stories like that. They bring tears to your eyes, sad, but at the same time heartwarming. The unconditional love of a parent is the greatest thing a child ever receives. In a time, when the world crumbles all around you, when the earth swallows everything in sight, when all the hope seems to fade, parents hold up the falling sky with their body and love. “Don’t cry, my child,” they comfort you. “I’m here. Everything will be all right.”

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