1st March, 2012

The Year gone by ....

Has it really been a year since I have written creatively? Or has it been just my laziness to post on my blog? Maybe I just wake up on Intl. Women's day.

201o and 2011 have been crucial years in my life, some experiences good some were not so good, and the best was that I retired from Government service. Not that I belittle in any way the 35 years that I spent with friends and my officers, learning and growing, struggling with promotion exams, while the children wondered what kind of exams is our mother writing all the time? It is just that it is great to be free and be an ordinary citizen.

These were years of widening my horizons to more global issues of peace with justice, church and its responsibility to nurture communities of peace, the responsibility of each and every citizen of the world to sincerely wish for love and harmony sans war, sans greed, sans unfair competition.

It was a year of the growing realization that mother Earth was anguished at the way we were treating her. The natural disasters and calamities almost every week was a harsh reminder that all our underground nuclear testing, the ravaging of her bowels to find metals and fuel, the destruction of flora and fauna, everything was a result of this irresponsible behavior. And she as every other good mother has still not abandoned us... she groans and yet struggles to feed her billion children and more, till she will one day fall and die as she will not have the strength to survive any longer for her children.

Romans 8: 22-23

“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. ²³And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves…….”