Habakkuk
Lord, I'm feeling down and blue
Discouraged and grumpy
Dare I say,
"Its all because of You?"
You know how we work
In the back of beyond-
Our resources always meagre
Our work, sold for a song.
Our budget -
completely topsy turvy
Unprecedented costs
Unnecessary worry
Stretched and compressed
By the endless flak
Protocols and bulletins
Do it this way and not that!
The one meter circles are painted
But footfalls so few
Income dismally low
What are we going to do?
Supplies and medicines
In pitiful state
How do we prioritise?
Whom to send and whom to take?
Existential questions
our heads are spinning
We're all worried
And we know we're not winning.
Its a story not unique
To us, lest we boast
But friends like us
are in the same boat.
Uncertainty looming
Is this 'curtains' for us?
Will we ever make it?
Will be totally crushed?
Staff morale really low
What's going to happen?
Don't really know.
But as Habakkuk said
When things went really bad-
There were no olives, grapes or figs
No crops from the land;
The sheep and cattle
Had disappeared too
Sounds familiar doesn't it?
Like what we're going through.
But Habakkuk didn't
Have a pity party, no sir!
No drowning in worries
Seemingly insurmountable fears.
We look in the Good book
to see what he said
The next verse starts
with a tiny-huge YET!
He said, though this devastation
Was all he could see
Yet, he would rejoice
in the God of Eternity!
The One who restores
beyond measure
So we praise Him
Our never failing treasure.
This is not the case of
Tough times never last
Tough people do;
Because we know how weak we are
Feeble and frail too.
So we will be glad
Because we have no Other!
And He sees us through
He is our Strong Deliverer.
Lisa Choudhrie
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