I give thanks for the safe return of a group of about 20 adults and children from our small village of less than 500 from the beaches of Sri Lanka last week - despite incidences of horrific separations by tumultuous waters. My heart goes out as I weep for those tens of thousands worldwide whose story has sadly not been the same. Love and prayers, Kate xx

A DROP IN THE OCEAN


Sri Lankan beach scene:

A small child totters
with over-swimming pail,
painstaking back up the sands
to show her precious catch.

Breathless in the silent heat,
she never makes it...


After the Great Flood,
her mother sees her in a vision
through the deluge of her grief;

Smiling, presenting her trophy:
"Look, Mummy!"
Not a drop from her bucket was spilled;
And her treasure was there, intact.


Each and every life a precious drop
preserved forever perfect
in the oceans of humanity's tears.