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.