I'm here lying comfortably in bed at a friend's house in London, the preferred destination of most asylum seekers who are desperate to cross.
A lot of them have already risked their lives to arrive in Calais from places as far as South Sudan. Many come with money gathered sacrificially from all the savings from their communities and families, expected to be paid back once they start their life in Europe.
The question that I had at the start, "how wild can a human be in Europe today?", is still part of this journey, even though I've gone less wild the last week.
It's not easy I would say. Access to drinkable water is becoming very difficult, never mind fresh spring water. Access to rivers is harder to find and I've been seeing more and more rivers totally dried out and old fountains in the villages without any water, even though the big monoculture farmed fields do seem to have irrigation water, even in the middle of very hot days which is a total inefficient way to use our precious water.
From my home, the Mount of Oaks to Annahavil in the North part of Ireland, where my mother in law lives.
I will stop in Taizé to have a break and some time of collective prayer with song and silence. For those who don´t know, Taizé is an ecumenical community of Prayer and Peace, started by Brother Roger, a swiss follower of Christ who, in his twenties, during the 2nd World War, decided to go to France and help refugee people who were in need in those troubled times, mainly Jews. He was denounced for his activities and had to go back to Switzerland and in 1944 when France was liberated he went back to Taizé to pray, now together with a few brothers who started to form the community he envisioned.
Did Jesus trained any army to make war against the oppressive regime of Rome or even encouraged any fight with the jews?
The Roman Empire was much more cruel than any regime existing today for those who would not comply to its demands, yet Jesus didn't even mention or encourage anyone to try to fight it.
Jesus was not in agreement with many of the jewish teaching at the time either, but he never used physical violence against any jew or anyone else with different views, like the samaritans for example.
Outros ainda conhecem um pouco mais do significado e acrescentam que seria a substituição do sacrifício judeus "exigido" por Moisés, lembrando a libertação do Egipto, quando o espírito da Morte passou por cima (passover- Páscoa) de cada casa dos judeus que obedeceram às instruções de pintar a porta com sangue de um cordeiro sem defeito. Assim a morte não levaria o primogénito daquela casa como fez em todas as outras casas egípcias.
A maior parte das pessoas hoje acha que o cristianismo é mais uma religião entre muitas e que a mensagem de Jesus é apenas espiritual, mas deixam de lado a parte política a que deveríamos dar mais atenção, na minha opinião.
It´s been interesting to observe that when the thought came to my mind that I don´t need to "fix" the many social problems I see around me in Angola (in my point of view), I also noticed a stillness in my mind... I actually stopped looking for solutions.
Hoje fui ao espaço da Comunidade Rasta de Benguela e tive conversas interessantes que me fizeram pensar e escrever... Apercebi-me que vejo o mesmo "problema" que vejo noutras partes do mundo, e vejo a mesma solução... Vou tentar desconstruir este pensamento.
Quero escrever sobre ESPERANÇA...
a esperança que sempre alcança,
O PARAÍSO
Quando perdemos a noção
De que tudo é sagrado,
Deixamos de saber que somos amados
E deixamos lixo por todo o lado...
Uns dizem que é falta de educação,
Mas pode ser apenas uma falha na visão...
Vencer o mal
é não nos subjugarmos a ele.
é resistir á tentação...
o Mal só existe se for praticado por alguém,
alguém que abriu o espírito, que deu permissão
desprotegido ou não (não sei),
e dar entrada ao mal que acaba por
alojar a alma (ferida ou doente),
da alma á acção por intermédio
do corpo,
é um instantinho...
