When I looked out the window this week and saw the line up of clouds I remembered how a year ago each day I looked across the brown grass to a cloudless sky and prayed for rain.
This very week last year a lightning strike in the great Wollemi wilderness was the small beginning of the Gospers Mountain mega blaze which burnt an astounding 1 million hectares of drought parched land. Our district was on edge for months.
Then rain began to fall it has continued steadily so today 97 per cent of our state (NSW) is now declared to be drought free. Who would have thought a pandemic would follow!
Today at Church at Home with the archbishop of Sydney we prayed. "Our heavenly Father we give you praise for the answer to our prayers. When our land was suffering drought and famine, we brought our prayers before your throne … For the abundant crops in NSW we give you thanks. For the joy of fruitful harvest, we give you thanks. For the opportunity of labourers to work in fields we give you thanks".
"May we your people continue to trust you in all our ways … may we continue to depend upon you in prayerful anticipation … So we also beseech your mercy on those who labour in laboratories to discover a vaccine for the coronavirus. Prosper their labours so we might live in peace and harmony and rid the world of this deadly disease. We ask these things in the name of Jesus our saviour and Lord."
Amen to that. Hope you're all well up in the mountains. Been awhile since I've visited.
ReplyDeleteThe mountains have been greatly refreshed with lots of rain, which I expect has made a lot of the walking tracks eroded and slippery, but it is a long while since I walked any of them.
DeleteA great prayer. God is in control thankfully. Hopefully there won't be such bad fires this year.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly looks good for a fire free summer in the mountains. They are thinking there might we grass fires in the central west when summer heat hits.
DeleteThe rainbow sure points to a better future!
ReplyDeleteIt does. We will get through this and wherever turns up next.
DeleteYes we must remember God is in control. Hopefully, there will be a vaccine available to all Australians next year. Our Church congregation has returned, but Ken and I are not yet able to return. I am still on rehabilitation after surgery and will not be returning until at least another month. We are happy to continue with live streaming on zoom.
ReplyDeleteWe have not gone back to church either. The Cathedral family service is still just online. Our Kandos church is meeting monthly but as we usually go to Sydney on public transport through western Sydney where the virus still lurks we have felt it best to stay away as the congregation is elderly. We are enjoying our online services, have still avoided zoom.
DeleteI hope He responds to your prayers
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