Love, or Something

Am grateful that my friend who was vacationing in Thailand is safe and sound. Am grateful for everyone in my life who is safe and sound.
About a week ago I read an article written by a man who was defending his belief in God. He said he could no more explain his faith scientifically than he could give exact proof of the love he feels for his wife. This pretty much sums up how I believe, except I refuse to attach myself to any church or following.
I cannot fathom how horrible the disaster in Thailand is. I don't get it. It goes beyond my realm comprehension. I have no idea what I would say to someone who has lost their whole family; I imagine that the last thing they would want to hear is that there is love in the world and a kind and gentle God.
I don't know what to do, how I can help, and I desperately want to.
So I suppose all I know for certain that I can do is to love my Husband, to love my family - yes even those who keep going on about pregnancies - and my friends near and far. And I hope I love them fairly and justly and that for someone, somewhere it makes a difference.
In two days The Husband and I will celebrate our three year anniversary. For various reasons known only to Icelandic bureaucrats and their Holiday schedules, we ended up getting a Protestant Minister for our wedding ceremony.
She was amazing. She made our wedding a truly individual declaration of love. At the risk of being schmaltzy I am going to leave this post with my favorite (as in: pretty-much-the-only-one-I-even-like) biblical quote, as it happens to be one of the few that were actually used at our wedding.

I Corinthians 13:1-13

1: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2: And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3: If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4: Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
5: it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6: it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
7: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8: Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9: For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
10: but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
11: When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12: For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
13: So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.