Changes. It’s inevitable.
'Development; at what cost?'
'Blatant disregard for the environment.'
'Exploitations of foreign labourers.'
'Suppression of the voices.'
'The old and weak despised.'
'A purposeless generation.'
'What will we be remembered for?'
50 Years of independence shaped the nation. History says we have achieved much. Our elected representatives say we should maintain status quo to ensure the next 50 years is just as successful. The media plays to the tune of a harmonious country and progressive nation.
But is everything REALLY all right? How sure are we that the pact our founding fathers worked out, will work in the changing decade and shifting values? Crime has reached an unprecedented stage. Diseases, natural disasters, human carelessness and greed make a ‘normal day’ read.
What role will you be playing in writing the next 50 years? God forbid that if we keep silent or remain in apathy, history itself will convict our generation for allowing things to deteriorate.
But what CAN we do, where we are?
Do we even care?
But is everything REALLY all right? How sure are we that the pact our founding fathers worked out, will work in the changing decade and shifting values? Crime has reached an unprecedented stage. Diseases, natural disasters, human carelessness and greed make a ‘normal day’ read.
What role will you be playing in writing the next 50 years? God forbid that if we keep silent or remain in apathy, history itself will convict our generation for allowing things to deteriorate.
But what CAN we do, where we are?
Do we even care?
(Photos courtesy of BBC News, LightFrame.lee and Joshua3.com.)
6 comments:
It should start from us.
If christians are still sitting in their own comfortable churches,
why then we expect other people to do the things that God appointed us to ?
God says the true fasting is that we go and help the poor and feed the hunger.
Go brethren! Arise Christian!
March on Family!
Anything we do will be insignificant, but we still have to do it - Gandhi
First, I will stop complaining about how 'pathetic' my life is, stop moaning about the bad or unhappy things in my own life.
Next, I will replace complaining with thanksgiving, for the LORD is good, in HIS own (sometimes rather unpredictable and mysterious) ways.
Then, I will give my best in all things entrusted into my hands; i.e. the classes that I'm about to teach this year. Also, I will learn to receive HIS grace everyday in order to live a life truly consecrated to HIM in all areas.
I think the above three things are more than sufficient as a beginning to make Malaysia and our world a better place to live in.
If we can't give thanks for all the good and bad in our own lives, If we can't give our best unto HIM in the daily tasks that we've been entrusted upon, we definitely can't help the poor with concrete action; coz we'll only be people of empty words.
-some anonymous child of God-
is there a shelter for the homeless around?
http://www.shelterhome.org/homes.htm
just google it.
It's true, time to be the voice in our respective lives. Then be the voice for the nation.
hi jason, thanks for sending the link ! how about a refuge for the wandering adults on streets? do u know of such centres? or feeding centres at least?
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