An Extra Ordinary Life

Feb 2009 Bushfires in Vic

Hi I have not been blogging at all in the New Year but today I am really feeling like I need to write something. The children have completed most of their school work today and now I have time to refelct on the devastating Bushfires that are around Melbourne at the moment. Bushfires are and have been a part of life here and most often when the weather turns as foul as it did Saturday you expect that something will happen. The winds are ferocious and hot often during the summer but when they come with 46c/115f temps they are deadly. That is what happened here Saturday. I was actually at a wedding and the poor bride looked like she was melting.We saw smoke and thought that it was a grass fire near the airport but in the last few days have come to realise that it was a Bushfire north of us that has killed a dozen or more people and devastated hundreds of houses. A friend of mine lives up that way and she is amazingly doing the best for her community working at the relife centre in Kilmore. I should have thought the worse when we spotted a grassfire in a paddock  on the way to the wedding and tried to call 000 and there was a cue. We then thought we would go to the fire station on the way but when we got there, all the trucks were gone and noone was around. All we could do was pray.

I have friends that are being touched by this and feel so useless and can only pray for them and those that are directly affected. It makes me angry to think that someone being careless or worse on purpose could have started all of this, like the cigarette throwing person who started the grassfire I witnessed and tried to get help for. Did someone consiously do that? I pray that they learn of what they have done and are brought to Justice for it.

My prayers are also with those who are afffected by the directly and indirectly and iipray for those fighting the fires and those who are caring for the fire victims and for the those who are and will volunteer in the near future to help rebuild. I pray for those who will need to rebuild their lives to be comforted and feel the hand of God around them.

This article touched me today:

 http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25025587-2862,00.html

This blog touched me today:

http://catalysed.com/missmaccypants/2009/02/09/how-fragile-life-is

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