It's weeks like this that really shake your faith. Knowledge of our sovergein God makes things harder not easier. 60 000 lives, a large number of these children, why? We can lay blame, we can say in this comes good, but why? Our news leads with Australians missing, and focus on a footballer. Why?
I'm not in a space to say please pray yet. My heart is out of line with my head at this point. The poem below is a lame attempt to put my heart into words.
Light a Prayer
Light a candle, say a prayer
And shed a tear for this world today
Lives swept away with the oceans tide
Hard to see the news today
Oceans apart from the tide
Can’t find the words today
Light a candle for the lives washed away
Spend a moment to pray, a moments silence on other fields
Faith swept aside by the oceans tide
My heart cries, why?
Our sea an eerie glass,
A new respect is found
Light a candle, shed a tear
another tide, of mercy, and love.
Wash away our apathy;
Restore our compassion
December 28, 2004
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