Saturday 5 March 2011

Rain Rain Go Away

It's really quite uncanny. It seems every time we have a community BBQ it rains. The idea is to put on a free BBQ for the community, to make friends and help people get to know some others in their area. We've been trying to do it on the first Sunday of every month, but the current score is three BBQs from about seven attempts. Not a very good average.

It's bizarre. We'll have three perfectly fine weekends in a row, and then the weekend of our BBQ will be wet wet wet. Same thing has happened this month. The last few weekends haven't been too bad, but then I look at the radar for tomorrow and it looks pretty certain that we'll be rained out again.

Haven't we had enough rain now God? It doesn't bother me so much. I mean, it only affects our little BBQ. No great loss. But the colossal amount of water you've sent in our country so far this year has produced devastation and heartache for some of the other people around us.

Not to mention the unbelievable amount of other major tragedies that have already occurred in the few weeks we've had so far this year. As well as the widespread flooding, there've been powerful tropical cyclones, earthquakes in Christchurch, bushfires, intense political turmoil in Libya and Egypt. What are you doing, God? Where are you? What's going on? We've had enough tragedy now for the next 10 years. Enough now, please. Father, let your kingdom of peace come to our broken earth.

And let it be today.

Tuesday 1 March 2011

White Ribbon Day

How can it be that God is love?
When blood rolls down upon our land
And fathers lose their only son
Where is the hope?
Oh God we pray for white ribbon day

How can it be that you could love?
When blood ran down that wooden cross
Your father gave his only son
You came for peace
You came to die for white ribbon day

And we pray for peace
To flood our hearts again
Only God can save our nation now
And we long for joy to fill our streets again
Only God can save our nation now

How can it be that God is just?
When flesh is torn from young and old
And children run in bloody fields
Where is the hope?
Oh God we pray for white ribbon day

And we pray for peace
To flood our hearts again
Only God can save our nation now
And we long for joy to fill our streets again
Only God can save our nation now

Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah for white ribbon day

And can it be that You are just
When flesh was torn for young and old?
And here we stand saved by Your blood
We'll stand with courage
We'll live and die for white ribbon day

Hallelujah, hallelujah,
Hallelujah for white ribbon day

- Delirious?