I keep thinking about those poor people in Australia where the fires have been. It's such an awful situation. Makes any problems I've got seem quite trivial. I've started typing out the monthly prayer bulletin at church (one of those things I somehow volunteered for without moving my lips). I start it off with something which is happening in the wider world so we don't just focus on ourselves & every time there has been something horrendous going on. Last month one of the staff in a children's home the church supports was killed & a boy badly burned in a fire. Sometimes the suffering in the world seems so huge it's hard to know how to pray.