One of our
Community Centres
and a local bar called
'Chiller's Den'
are found standing side by side
Once I happened to pick by chance a copy of June 21, 2008 issue of the USA national publication of the War Cry. Inclusion in the magazine’s column of 'Quotes of the past and present' was Commissioner Lalkiamlova, International Secretary for South Asia’s verbatim - “The question is not who’s my neighbour, but whose neighbour am I”. Together let’s try to answer this question.How easy it is to count ourselves as acquaintances of people whom we admire, the rich and famous elite, and how hard we may try to have them accept us! But equally difficult is even to simply consider ourselves as neighbour to the poor, infamous and the down-and-outs of society. Still more unlikely is this latter category of fellow beings accepting ‘us’ as their neighbours!
Today, where image seems to be all-important, we note that Jesus cared nothing for his image. He made himself ‘nothing’. He came into our world, into our mess, into our shoes and ultimately into our place. He embraced the cross. He made total identification with us sinners. (Philippians 2: 5-7).
Two thousand years later we still need to hear the Master’s words - ‘Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant’. The parable of the Good Samaritan reminds us how easy it is for us to be so committed to our standards, practices and work schedules that we fail to make an impact in the ‘real world’– a world of chaos, violence and suffering, where our faith and service are most needed.
Jesus identifies himself with me, so shall I with the suffering world.
4 comments:
a tha thei khawp mai ... ka hlawkpui thin e zaia .........
dr chhana ralte
presbyterian hospital
durtlang mizoram
@chhanhima=chhante, i lo tlawh thin a, ka lawm e. Please continue to be a 'neighbour' for inpatients of K-ward (PC Hospital). Hope you still enjoy washing, cleaning and dressing of the feet of IVDUs at Salvation Army's CHAN.
Thiama, kan lo chhiar e, tha kan ti khawp mai. Hmanni chu Dea-a te nen kan thutkhawmnaah in hmun hma vel chanchin kan sawi a, Deana chuan Zambiaah chuan Khawpui (Town) kan run a ni tawp maia engtia kal zel tur nge tih hi ngaihtuah tham tak a ni e, a ti a, in Hospital compound vel a lian amw hem hem hle mai.
Nia he i verbatim, US War Cry-a an rawn ziahlan hi tunlai chu kan nupa rilru hnehtu a ni. Kan zir kan zir mai, hospital morning devotion ka hruainaah helam pang hi tum hnih ka sawi tawh nghe nghe.
Chikankata-ah hian SA-in thil engkim kan nei a tih theih. Major Dean was right. From Radio station, Biomedical College, Nursing College, Higher Sec. School, Hospital & 5 rural health centres, varieties of reaseach projects to butchery and 2 vehicle workshops. We cater for a total population of about 15,0000. The school itself has more than 1000 pupils with 850 of them boarders with their own production unit. The Chief herself is a Salvationist, her husband our corps treasurer. And most important of all we have God, the Almighty who makes these things possible. I won't be surprised if one day we have our own university. I will later post it in detail.
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