Australia is Just Alright With Me

The Doobie Brothers performed the Art Reynolds song Jesus is Just Alright back in the early Seventies. One of the curious things about this version of the song was no members of the Doobie Brothers were devoutly Christian. The song was a lukewarm ode to a divinity they didn’t really believe in.

I have sometimes felt a similar lukewarmness about Australia. Our country was the Jesus to my Doobie Brothers. I liked it, but I probably took what I had for granted in a lukewarm fashion. No more. What we enjoy in this country constitutes something rather special. This has become even more apparent to me in recent days.