The news over the past few days has been completely overwhelming, and it’s incomprehensible even to imagine what individuals and communities are going through in the flooded areas.
Here’s a few of my reflections related to the flooding and this blog:
- Australia is an amazingly resourceful nation. We are strong in community, resilience, communications, and infrastructure (and many other ways too that don’t include cricket at the moment)
- Australia is incredibly financially blessed. When there is a great and felt need we are blessed enough to be able to share a lot of money. I read yesterday that $392 million was given after the bushfires in Victoria. The money for the flood victims is now starting to pour in.
- It’s easy to not see what awful things are happening beyond our shores. Not least the flooding in Brazil where the death toll is above 500! Just looking for that update I read that Sri Lanka and the Philippines currently have flooding with greater death tolls than ours.
What are your thoughts on the floods and how we can respond?
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