What I find, when I walk in our garden is the sign of abundance in plants and trees. It is a refreshing sight and brings hope in a difficult season globally.
It is about COVID 19, there is news and views in the media. It is almost threatening to think about what might happen in the coming season, psot monsoon when the winter sets in. Going by the predictions, it is most unsettling.
It is in this setting, I feel enthused and refreshed by these sights in our garden. The earth is producing its produce in its season for humankind.
We are not forsaken or left behind! We are provided for and destined to live abundantly because the humans have been bestowed to overcome and subdue the hostile environment!
These seeds, fruits, bud about to blossom tell me that, life has a journey beyond the present devastation we encounter due to the corona infection. Although we have lost thousands of people to the infection, and its rage still continues depleting us of our resources and resilience, it could only be a valley which shall lead us to the mountain.
So much focus is on the present, which is how it should be, that we cannot lose the hope that shall sustain us to get ready for a new beginning and prospects of renewal of humanity in its perspectives, values and sense of belonging and togetherness.
It was the League of nations after the first world war. Following the second world war the United Nations, World Health Organisation and many similar international bodies were born. Now the WHO remains discredited due its failure to be the co-ordinating body during this pandemic; the UN is under suspect because the voice of nations do not get represented adequately in its deliberations.
Let me suggest that a new international dispensation is likely to emerge! A country like the USA with its potential to be a leader to show the way of containing the pandemic has been a bad example; its president defied to wear a mask until last week. The USA is a country of contradictions and brought disrepute to scientific temper. China allowed this devastation by its wilful neglect in delaying to share information about COVID 19 to the global community.
Let us return to the Mother Earth. It shall still give its produce for humans even when humans exploit it thoughtlessly. The God of universe favours His creation because of which we too shall live in hope! It is a time to be awakened to this new reality that the present shall pass away and a new future shall unfold itself!
Till then, doing good for others is a worthwhile cause to pursue!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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