Elephants in Sumatra felt the tsunami coming and startedtrumpeting, alerting local people to the coming danger.Tourists were riding about a dozen of the elephants, whichsuddenly turned and ran away from the beach. Others brokethe heavy chains on their legs and stampeded, but somestopped and picked up people with their trunks, depositingthem on their backs, before they ran.

This is one of a building number of examples of animalstaking action to save themselves and others throughout thestricken region of the tsunami. Clearly, the animals aremuch more in touch with earth than we are. We need to taketheir example to heart.

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Some amazing rescues occurred during the recent tsunamis. A10-year-old English girl saved her entire family because sheremembered a geography lesson she?d learned in school. And agroup of gypsies used their ancient knowledge of the sea tosave themselves.
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Whitley Strieber offers a new journal entry with someuniquely useful ideas about good places to contribute to thetsunami relief effort. He has found a large charity with anextensive existing infrastructure in the area, a mediumsized one with a unique guarantee about how funds donatedwill be used, and a small one in India that is entirelylegitimate and will get your contributions directly into thehands of those who need help. To read his new journal entry,click here.

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Every month, about six thousand people visit our prayergroup. That’s an impressive number–but not out of over amillion monthly visitors to the site! We believe in prayeron thiswebsite. We believe that one of the reasons you are seeingthis fine new diary entry from Anne Strieber is because ofprayer. Even the doctors expected it to take six months to ayear for her to recover. But she’s well after just a fewweeks–and she was the recipient of lots of prayer and healing.
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