Time to Celebrate ?

 

This year there seems to be little cause for rejoicing.

·         Putin continues to bombard Ukraine with massive loss of life. Many heads of state have condemned what Biden has called Russia’s acts of genocide. Sadly, despite the voiced support, this sketch did not predict the state of things to come. We are now in the second month of carnage. 

                                                          

·         Recently a mass shooter randomly opened fire in Brooklyn subway, injuring more than 20.

·         A Greek mother has been taken into custody under suspicion of murdering her third child by administering a seizure-causing drug over a period until the poor child succumbed. Her other two children had died within the last two years. It now looks suspiciously like the loss of these three little souls was the mother’s strategy to win the attention of her estranged husband.

The Greek press seem to be making an absolute circus of that, albeit tragic, family situation. A news reporter accused Putin of going on safari in Ukraine.                                                                             Have we succumbed to outright barbarianism?

                                               

 Certainly, the artist above seems to imply man, in his progress, has taken a wrong turning somewhere.

We need to broaden our personal perspective, as Martin Luther King, Jr explains:

‘An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.’

Mahatma Gandhi teaches us

‘The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.’

As Easter is celebrated this weekend and Orthodox Easter the following week, may we celebrate and practise being humane to one another and may this little sprig of our apple blossom symbolize          hope and  positivity for the future!