stop, drop and pray...

Last night the North-Eastern corner of Burma (where Thailand and Laos meet) was shaken by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
After witnessing so many natural disasters occurring in the past 3 months, I know I have become emotionally exhausted. I grieved through the floods, chewed my nails down through cyclone Yasi, prayed my heart out for survivors of Christchurch's earthquake, and had to turn the TV off during Japan's quake/ tsunami - it was all too much.
But now the country that I care so deeply for is in trouble. You might think "Oh, the death toll is only 60, it's not that bad", but please remember some critical points:
- 60 people in remote villages could mean whole families deceased or mothers and children left without anyone to provide for them.
- 30% of all structure are reported to be damaged - and I can't see the Myanmar officials handing out centrelink payments or facilitating the rebuild, can you?
- These people are poor and needy already. How much worse off they will be if their water supplies are damaged, houses are unliveable, and livelihoods affected?

Please join with me and PRAY FOR BURMA.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/25/3174101.htm

Pray for Burma

I've been back from my trip for exactly one month but have struggled to express my experience in words.

Sadly that means poor blog here has been deprived.

Tomorrow (Sunday 13th) is the Global Day of Prayer for Burma.

We can unite in prayer and passion for the people of Burma. So much of their hope comes from knowing people care about them enough to pray.

Get behind the cause by visiting http://www.prayforburma.org/ and reading about the plight and programs going on. Then get PRAYING!

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. . . . If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”
Matthew 7:7-8,11