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  This week I want to break away from my usual article and incorporate something that is part of everyone's experience being or working with campers: KUMBAYA.
That phrase has varying interpretations, but the one I found means "Come by Here", and several versions of lyrics. The singer is asking God to learn of his situation and respond to it, for example "Hear me crying, Lord, Kumbaya", "Hear me singing. Lord…"; "Hear me praying…" , "Someone's dying…"etc. In light of recent events, I would like to re-do the lyrics, as follows:

Hear me screaming, Lord, Kumbaya
I am buried here, Kumbaya
Please start digging now, Kumbaya
Don't just leave me now, Kumbaya.

We are hurting, Lord, Kumbaya
Under tons of rock, Kumbaya
When it fell on us, Kumbaya
Monster quake it was, Kumbaya.

Where's my baby, Lord, Kumbaya
Is he rescued Lord? Kumbaya
Will they get us out? Kumbaya
We can't breathe in here, Kumbaya.

I just felt a jolt, help me Lord
Is it over yet? Kumbaya
Are these after shocks? Kumbaya
Will they hurt us more, Kumbaya.

It is dark in here, I can't see
Someone helping me, Kumbaya
Is it night time now, will they stop
Coming here to help? Kumbaya.

I hear shouting, Lord, from the street
And some gunshots come forth to meet
Frantic looters taking what isn't theirs
Hoping no one sees or cares.

They are hungry Lord, thirsty too
They are rioting, Lord, in distress
Seeing everywhere just a mess
Who can fix it? Can we guess?

Should be praying, Lord, for your peace
And then singing, too, bringing ease
To the injured ones, and the grieving
Putting You first, Lord, never leaving.

For the fault's not ours, we've not sinned
Fault is in the ground, where we're pinned
Massive chunks of earth moved today
Leaving us in Nature's way.

Hear our prayers, oh Lord, for the dead
And for the rest to live instead
Let our Savior look today
On his people as they pray.

Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya
Show us mercy for today
As we wait here in Haiti
For Salvation, as we pray.

Please join me in praying for the victims of the earthquake that struck Haiti, that all may find help and peace.

Just Mom 		 


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