out of ashes the new is born

Now out of ashes the new is born, and it is now time to look to the future, realising where all the good is, and where the positive can be found. Last Sunday, there was a unique Australian National memorial service, held in Melbourne Victoria, for all those who were involved, those who had lost everything, and those who have gone.
It was a wonderful service, because it brought together every aspect of Victorian life, and hopefully the real start of the “Interfaith” society of understanding in Victoria. Where all religions, faiths, and those people who now live in Victoria, Where so many people have come from every corner of the earth, to now enjoy the Victorian, and Australian lifestyle. Where people are equal no matter who or what they are.
This inter faith is the first step in understanding the faiths, habits, and traditions of all, no matter what their colour or creed maybe. There possibly is no City, or state in the world, other than here in Melbourne and in Victoria where the actions of the interfaith movement has become so positive. For people to try to understand each other, to love their neighbour’s, no matter what, is a big step forward, this has surely all come from the ashes.
Politician’s, and experts all talk about the their promises, and then there are those who question why, when in South-eastern Australia, over the years we have had a history of bushfires and fire storms, that we fail as a State, or a nation, to learn, heed, or understand the behaviour of a bushfire, and when the fire becomes a fire-storm.
Neville Shute in his 1955 Novel “The Far Country” when writing about the mountain cattlemen at the foot of Mt Buller, when one the men who was deep in the forest, but in a clearing, went to light a match for his cigarette. The match when struck flared significantly. The methane type gas from the eucalyptus gum leaf due to the extreme heat of the day was indeed high, so being the cause for the match to flare.
For a country to experience so many dry low humidity very hot days before that day of the fires, can only mean a extremely high eucalyptus vapour was going to be present throughout Southeastern Australia. In many ways, I am surprised that there was not far more devastation than what eventuated.
Because of distance and time from other parts, nations, and countries of the world, the Australian history has shown how as a Nation the people will band together, making sacrifices in helping others. This history from the time of the first settlers, including the two world wars has shown the unique Australian traditions of banding together as brothers, turning the bad into the good. So again in Australian tradition, this interfaith has awakened as one, we again become a close united team, all under the Australian flag fighting a war against the evils of nature and man kind. Yes from these experiences will be developed more world first break through, and better ways to understand so to be living in the Aussie lifestyle, all under one God.