Get rid of all bitterness,
rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind
and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God
forgave you. (Ephesians 4:31,32)
“Thank you, friend!” I said this morning to the male Asian operator as
I left the X-ray department at our local hospital. As my wife and I walked to
the car, it was Pam who declared, “Where would we ever be without these skilled
immigrants serving us in our hospitals?”
I could only agree. In every one of my various hospital adventures in
recent years, I have been only too aware of nurses, orderlies and social
workers, recruited from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Egypt, India, Poland, Somalia or
Indonesia…. immigrants who have helped to fill the gaps in our over-pressed National
Health Service. At a time of pain,
I never forgot my most vigilant and caring nurse ever. She was from Nepal.
Bear this in mind in the face of the current racist abuse, coupled with
expressions of mutual hatred and parliamentary
confusion in the leadership crisis that British society is experiencing at this
present vital turning point for the future.
It is when a country has lost its legacy of spiritual and ritual
identity – harnessed over centuries – that a single issue can cause it to
succumb to forces and sentiments that stem from the Pit.
Don’t succumb, yourself. If your
experiences with social media foster in your soul the numbing process by which
hate feeds off hate, then leave it alone – for a period, at least. And an up-building exercise? TRY A FILM! Send for the DVD of the film that the Guinness
Book of Records declares as the most watched film – secular or religious – in
the whole of history. Forget The Titanic. It is ‘The Jesus Film’ –
watched over 6 billion times and translated into 1,200 languages. Some 200 million people world-wide have
declared themselves to have found personal faith and meaning in life, through
watching it. Just google www.agape.org.uk to find it.
Then share it with friends….
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