Hi friends,
I was surprised that the blog was been quite for a while. Hope everyone is safe and happy. Well its been a strange turn over for me, Almost five years ago I travelled to UK- a strange place with a diffrent culture and life style. But being and remaining has a christian was very challenging. Thanks to Greenbelt for helping me with my feelings and emotions in my struggles with my Faith.
I grow and still developing in my christain believes and faith a lot through GB. GB showed me an informal way of loving and serving God and the mankind.
Well coming back to India after 4 years, I felt very strange…..but all is good after all its a learning process…life here being a minority (christian) in this country…sometimes loses temper when you get in touch with the churches and its rules…. very strange…..sometimes feels like the churches and the priests are demons who are trying to sqeeze our neck. Its painful as I write this but doesn’t mean to hurt anyone.
Why the churches have to be formal???
Why they think that they have to control the lives of human beings???
Where did the old service oriented approach of the churches and the priests gone????
It feels like we are coming back to the past where the priests tend to govern the country and the people as they did durings the time of Jesus Christ.
The right word I am looking for is power!!!! POWER…
a strange word…..POWER when mixed with MONEY…..makes the christians greedy…..its a sad part that when india got independence the churches and the missionaries worked for the development and bettermend of the people.
Where as now runnign after money and trying to show their strenght and authority over human beings especially poor christians…
I am hurt…..feels like becoming a revolutionarian…..
But how ????
With whom????
Feels lonely…..but praying to God lifts my soul…..I love being a christain…. these struggles makes me more close to God…..
Feeling very strange and everyday I am experiencing different cultural shocks….but this is making my life interesting and worth living.
Thanks to GB and to the beautiful humans who touched my life.
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April 6th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
I have no idea who Richard is, never having met him, nor having ever gone to Greenbelt. But I hope that someone he knows will acknowledge his message with encouraging words and tell him that just by being who he is and sticking to his beliefs,Richard is being a “revolutionary” - he doesn’t have to do anything else.
April 17th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
hi Richard,
who I know only from your words… thanks for your thoughts.. you talk of being in India and stuff getting to you.. feels like that for me here in Brit… the lonely frustration of feeling that you’re the only one who thinks/feels what you do… speaking from the frustration of that sense of experience.. you’re not alone.. AND GOD’s listening to you.. it’s challenging sometimes to stand with something that’s big and just need to cry out to GOD… and that’s just what we need to do .. however big however small insignificant or what difference can I make… give it to GOD
it’s humbling for me to think that GOD’s listening AND that GOD’s talking to all of us all of the time…
GOD BLESS!
Peace and Love,
that inner peace for you…