Bushfire
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To you, O Lord, I cry. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the field. Even the wild animals cry to you because the watercourses are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.This reminds me that we are in fact fortunate when 'crap' stuff happens, because it means we turn to God. Truly, the poor, the weeping, et cetera are blessed, because it's easier for them to find God.
( Joel 1:19-20)
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Love this quote (Dobbs-Allsopp 2002, 151):
'Christianity has shown a tendancy throughout history to rush too quickly past these moments of divine abandonment and hiddeness...God's hiddenness, however hurtful, "drives the Christian not to further theological speculation but too the cross" and to "the practice of resistance to evil in defeat" that it so potently symbolises "for whatever comfort we may find". The paradox of the cross is that it is at once a symbol of suffering and abandonment and a symbol of solidarity in suffering and abandonment.'
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