Surprises

I was doodling this in church the other Sunday and decided to submit it to the local Climate Change group who are publishing a book on people's thoughts on climate change and they have decided to publish it! Surprised or what!!

CLIMATE CHANGE!!

Changing, changing! We know the climate is changing!
Everything in the world is always changing!
With it comes floods
With it comes rain
With it comes total change in the whole system of climate as we know it
We are told to embrace change
Told that change is always with us
Change when ecospheres are destroyed
Changes when species die
Changes when what we knew has gone
Changing, changing! We know the climate it changing!
Should we embrace this change?
Should we try to change and stop this change?
Is all change good?
Is all change bad?
How can we see and harness what is good from this climate changing?
How can we deal with and stop what is bad?
Can we stop what is bad?
Is life as we know it all over?
And yet, and yet!
In all of this what picture can we hold on to
Is there hope is all of this?
Is there something to help us through all this?
When we see the world leaders not seem to be able to agree
When we see protests appearing to be ignored
What can we hold on to?
And yet back in a flood
Back in a time of total livelihood being destroy
There comes a symbol of hope.
There comes something we can hold on to
There in that tree as helicopters fly above the floods
There is the woman, labour induced by the trauma
There she is giving birth in a tree
There is our symbol of hope
There is a sign that God has said He will not destroy the world with a flood again
There is a sign of new birth
There is a sign of hope
In all this fear,
In all this disillusionment
There in a tree in an forgotten African country
There is a symbol of hope
There is new birth
Help us hold on to that symbol of rebirth
The symbol of hope
In all this change and change and more change there is hope
Hold on tight to it