2015-01-20 I have not written for a long time… I need to say first that sadly, my
friend Carol Watkinson who did the beautiful collection of slides for my Talk
on ‘Pathways for Peace…’ passed away in
October last year. She
had cancer. I never heard her complain. Peace to your soul, dear Friend! I do miss
you. Thank you for what you did and for what you tried to do.
.....................xxx.....................
2015 - I received an
unsettling email some days ago, about some Arabs sewing, in cold
blood, the eye and mouth of a girl who proclaimed to be a Christian! That is
what I read. Is it true?!... It had a shocking photo of her… and ‘the
media chose to ignore …’, it says.
It is up to us to
believe it or not, to think about it or to just move on. I chose to stop and
share some thoughts - especially after the 'Paris tragedy'.
What hurts me is to
see how these fanatics are apparently 'winning' and making waves, of terror if
nothing else, whilst as a friend of mine was saying, 'followers of Christ
choose to remain in silence not to upset family or friends and just let them
be, or watch TV.... possibly even porno... to pass time'.
Do we, Christians, not believe that there is power in 'prayer' ,
in going to church, to Mass, if a Catholic, and receiving the Body of Christ
present in the Eucharist? Do we try to find out what is happening at Medjugorje
where Mary appears constantly with the same message as at Fatima in
Portugal:
‘Pray, Pray! For Peace in the world! For the salvation of Souls!
Bless those that hurt you! Pray!’ ?
Apparently each year more and more youngsters are going to Medjugorje to pray!
But we prefer, some of us, to shout NO to RELIGION!
It is too scary! Don't
teach it to children! Give them freedom of Choice! Freedom of...
Speech!
I honestly feel sorry for them, for us, for the consequences of
this way of thinking.
Religion is, unfortunately,
often USED for political ends, that is
true! But for me what it means comes from the Latin word 'religare', meaning to
'reconnect'. Reconnect what? The Created and the Creator!
Humanity and God! But that is our choice...yes. So, ARE CHILDREN SUPPOSED TO
GROW and NOT BE TAUGHT about GOD, and
then WHEN ADULTS, DECIDE? IS THAT GOING
TO WORK? Did it work for the American psychologist who started the new 'youth
education revolution'? His son committed suicide at about 30 years of age...
How WILL WE JUSTIFY the Morals we might want to teach them? Why are we so
scared to hurt their sensitivity and impose our rules, at least whilst they
live with us, their parents ? Do we want to 'make friends' or be 'parents'?
IS IT NOT FROM THE
CRADDLE THAT A CHILD NEEDS TO BE NURTURED AND OR DISCIPLINED TO LEARN TO CURB
SELFISHNESS AND OPEN THE HEART TO GOODNESS? TO JESUS, THE SON OF GOD - who died for us on a
Cross? Our God is a loving God that allows freedom of choice! It is up
to us to choose, yes! And to choose whether to place in our children's hearts
the knowledge of the 'Way' - to Freedom, to Love, to Peace'! Jesus' Way!
Please do read Peter
Hitchens's 'The Rage against God'. I mentioned him last year in a talk. In his
opinion, 'without God, morals will have
no leg to stand on'. This journalist, a Christian converted to communism
who lived in Russia and Somalia, shocked with all that he saw there and years
later in England, he converted back to being a Christian. The link to the talk,
if you are interested, is: http://youtu.be/CUJwPA77c1I
May God bless us all!
Let us pray for the confused, the wrong doers, the proud, the scared! For us ,
for our families. Let us pray for enlightnement and perseverance, for
forgiveness and for loving kindness. For
Peace in the world!
Bless you for reading
this. Thank you.
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