Often our lives are so full of ourselves and our plans. For us, the excitement of having a baby seems to consume our thoughts, prayers and worries.
However, today I just want to remind myself and anyone else who is reading this blog to pray for the people suffering in Myanmar where the death toll from the cyclone that hit on May 3rd is around 100,000. One journalist (Martin Fletcher) wrote
"Imagine huddling under a tree with dozens of others, your back flayed open by the whipping leaves and branches in the water, and there’s no medication; the wind is severe and it’s raining hard, you’re hungry and there’s no food, and the only water to drink is the floodwater that surrounds you, which is polluted by the corpses of humans and animals bobbing around you. Your children are crying and the old people are sick. And you look into the sky for planes or across the water for rescue boats, and they both stretch to the horizon and are empty. That’s the situation described by aid officials who are frustrated beyond comprehension at the obstructive response of the Myanmar government.
Please also pray for the families in China, especially those who have lost their children in the huge earthquake that just passed. Many of those who died were children because it happened during school hours.
There is much suffering in the world and even though it is easy to be wrapped up in my own life, Jesus calls me to love others like I love myself. So now I will go and pray…
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