Refugees....
Welcome the alien and stranger among you.....I have been awake since the early hours with a heavy heart at Australia's current response to refugees... it is inhumane, lacking in compassion and dignity and down right wrong....
How can I respond. I have already written to the Prime Minister... I follow the Centre for Asylum Seekers Facebook page and keep up with the information...
However, I've been thinking this morning that I need to turn off my 'like' to that page - and to other feeds that come from people opposing our extreme right wing government - because the knowledge of these issues cause me such grief and anxiety...
I know the knowledge can lead me to pray and call out to God, which I was and have been doing this morning - but other times I feel like I have enough anxiety and grief to carry in my own life and those of my friends that world issues seem too hard..
To find a way to be informed and compassionate - without carrying the load?????
Oh that there will be a rising up from ordinary Australians to cry out for compassion for these people fleeing war and terror and torture, in no small way caused by wars we have been involved in or started....
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