NEPAL EARTHQUAKE - POEM

Canyons heave and mountains tumble,

earth beneath will shift and rumble,

quaking buildings tilting and falling

will God never head our calling?

Like some hell afire with trouble,

children buried in the rubble:

seems there is no hope or reason,

fear unleashed, death finds its season.

Here in utter desperation

harmed by nature's harsh mutation,

will we ask 'is God against us',

seeking to deny or test us?

When, O when, as life is rattled

and we feel dislodged, embattled,

will an avalanche of praying

turn a God bent on betraying?

Then when rubble ceases moving,

still God's grace, it seems, needs proving.

All our trust and hope is waning,

faith is taut, near breaking, straining.

Yet, as neighbours, sharing grieving,

let us bring God's love, relieving

fears that leave the world unsleeping

seeding trust, God's grace unceasing.

© Andrew Pratt 12/5/2015

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Open letter to the Prime Minister fomr Mike Walsh

Mike, a URC Minister wrote and open letter to Prime Minister Cameron after the 2015 election. It begins:

Dear Prime Minister,
I don't know if you will ever read this, but I have some things I wish to say to you.
You have won the General Election and command a majority in the House of Commons, and as such will feel you have a legitimate mandate to govern. However, you must also know that you don't command a majority of the British people.
Although our political views are very much at odds on many issues, I'm willing to believe that you are a good man, as sure of your ideals as I am of mine, and believe your plan is what's best for us all. You said today that you will govern for the whole country and bring back together that which has clearly fractured. I hope you will.

Thanks to Mike for this - a timely word

Read the whole of the letter here

https://www.facebook.com/revd.walsh?fref=ts