I write today with a profound sense of gratitude and guilt. Gratitude as my region – the Sunshine Coast, in South East Queensland – has been spared the winds and deluge of Cyclone Alfred over the past few days. But equal amounts of guilt, as we here have suffered so little in comparison to so many of our neighbouring regions, who’ve had trees shatter their cars, their powerlines, their homes, who’ve had floodwaters pour down their streets, past their front doors and inundate their cars and anything low enough and not sand-bagged.
Why should we suffer so little and they so much? Where’s the fairness in that?
Plain and simple: there *is* none. None of this is fair. But guilt can imprison just as much as ingratitude and inaction. It can hold me back from giving what I’m freely able to give. And that is just plain wrong.
So I write of my faith.
Faith without action is dead though, yes?
So: go ACT. Sure, there’s been a cyclone. There’s been winds and rain which have adversely affected dozens if not hundreds.
And what am I willing to DO about it?
Just a thought for today, dear Reader. Have a blessed week ahead.
KRidwyn