Bħal Ħuta fl-Ilma!! (Like a Fish in the Water!)

I have come across this poem
...and it has struck me so much!!!

(well the word 'struck' does not quite sound right

...but well you know what i mean!

...i couldn't remember the right word... :-(

IF GOD SHOULD GO ON STRIKE

How is it that God above

Has never gone on strike

Because he was not treated fair

In things He didn't like.

If only once He'd given up,

And said, 'That's it, I'm through!

I've had enough of those on earth,

So this is what I'll do;

I'll give my orders to the sun -

'Cut off the heat supply!'

And to the moon -

'Give no more light,

and run the ocean dry.'

Then just to make things really tough

And put the pressures on,

'Turn off the vital oxygen

Till every breath is gone!'

You know, He would be justified

If fairness was the game.

For no one has been abused

Or met with more disdain

Than God, any yet He carries on

Supplying you and me

With all the favors of His grace

And everything for free.

Men say they want a better deal

And so on strike they go.

But what a deal we've given

To God to whom all things we owe.

We don't care whom we hurt

To gain the things we like.

But what a mess we'd all be in

If God should go on strike!!

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Bħal Ħuta fl-Ilma!! (Like a Fish in the Water!)

"In him we live and move and have our being!!

As some of your own poets have said,

'We are his offspring!"

(Acts 17:28)

...this was the example Fr.George the only (declared) Maltese saint would repeat each time he spoke of God and His immense Providence. ...which we ...i... might ...and often do... take for granted.

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God is watching
and He is caring.
But often times
i hardly notice!

I take God for granted!
But what indeed if God should go on strike?!?

(oooooo i don't even want to think about it!!!!)

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Poem's author was not found. :-( Both pictures, though cropped, were found on the internet and remain property of their rightful owners.