The potential peace between India and Pakistan does exist! Nothing in this world is dead that cannot be revived or resurrected! Samundar Singh who had killed Blessed Sr. Rani Maria had a change of heart and is now preaching the gospel.
Belief in Resurrection is exactly that; it is not something that of a past speaking about our future!
Don't die voluntarily! Don't put the end card so quickly and get buried!! The deeper you are buried, the longer you are buried, the tougher it is to get out! Get out of it quickly!!
Relationships can be buried! Hopes can be buried! Initiatives can be buried! Friends can be buried! Your future can be buried!
Keep them alive! Not just survival but keep them lively!
Once again let me get back to the same example. There are fantastic resources in India and Pakistan! But petty politics had sunk them down and keeps both the countries poor and marginalized! We both are pouring our hard-earned money into the purchase of ruthless and "useless" arms rather than power projects, watershed programmes, resource development and so on!
When I want to win an election, I do not mind fanning the caste sentiments among youngsters and ruin their lives. The youth from neighbouring villages or streets see each other as enemies and lose their future.
The dominant caste, their kith and kin go to the universities, fly abroad to get superlative degrees and become doctors, lawyers or get into administrative structures. But they inflame the others in the name of religion and caste, force a weapon in their hands to fight each other.
Let us change this "deadly" situation!
Tell the children around you to say hello to their neighbour!
Tell the youth to hold hands with their neighbour and look at the bright future!
Tell yourself, to wind up bigotry, prejudice and bias to see together with the fantastic synergy that you can generate as a family, as a community, as a church, as a village or as a congregation!
When you consider someone an enemy you are closing down the shutters! You spell death! When you revenge someone, you are wasting your energy and you opt for death instead of life! After a couple defeats you get disappointed and give up trying, you are winding up! When you don't get the results you expected, you stop initiatives, you are dying!
Death or Resurrection, therefore, is your choice!
On a single day, one can die several times feeling dejected, feeling discouraged, feeling defeated, but You can also raise up to love, to relate, to hope for, to help, to reach out!
Resurrection is not a past event!
If your dogmatic faith is all about Jesus raising you one last day after the final judgement or whatever, then logically you should not worry about His job! Let us not waste our precious time on hair splitting discussions on what type of body Jesus had when he rose from the dead and so on!
You can beautifully experience Resurrection when you lift up a poor, when you shake hand and re-establish peace with a person when you can bring smile in a disappointed person, why not?
Why choose death when you can resurrect yourself and others?
Why wait for the "Final day" to get resurrected?
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