24 April, 2015

An offering for the farmers!


Summer is the time, when the plants look least refreshing!

However the temple flowers decorate the otherwise barren look in most gardens. The temple flowers display an array of colours! In fact the colours are most pronounced in the thick of the summer as if it is the summer heat which makes them more pretty to look at!

As I took a walk in a garden recently and saw these sights, I kept thinking about the impact of circumstances on our lives. 

As there is lot of focus in the media on the extreme challenges the farmers face, due to damage to the crops due to hailstorm and rain, I was reminded of the visit to the garden. The gardener watches over the plants and trees. The farmer plants and waits for the crops. When his waiting ends in loss of the crops,  it is the family who is used into debt and deprivation. The agrarian crisis is distressing and pushing people into desperation. 

I wonder, whether there is a neighbourly attitude towards our farmers! If it is a visible and acute calamity, there is often thoughtful human responses of care and support! But when it is a silent and chronic crisis, we do not even feel it to respond! 

Think of the farmer who is our nearest neighbour. Is there something we can do to that family to support them through their crisis ! 

I wish every congregation during the Sunday worship service would raise an offering from its members to create a farmer's fund to help them! 

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)

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