Earth Shaking

by the Rev. Bobbie McGarey

God Help

We hear the stories
of wind and rain and storm
of floods of water and mud
and shaking quaking shaking earth
of no homes or jobs or hospitals
and we cry out like the psalmist
and the Savior –

O God why have you forsaken us.

So we turn on the TV and shop
for a ‘must-have’ handbag
reduced to $150! wow!
And we sip our ’bucks coffee
that we deserve because
we are worth-it
and wail
"I just don’t know what I can do?"

So we hurry off to Wal-Mart
and find everything we need
and don’t need
and worry about what to do
with all we have

While people wrapped in blankets
their only cover
hold their hands to us
and cry…


The Peace of God be with you!

I got a link about the troubles in Guatemala, and then the Pakistan quake and aftermath, and wrote this.

God abides
Bobbie