The Yellow Canary (Re-Worked B)

 

 

 

How a society or nation treats the Jew in their midst is the litmus test of  that nation or society ?

If a nation treats the Jew with respect, allows them freedom to co- exist and  with other due democratic values then that nation is likely to be a true, stable democratic country.

But if the society or nation state treats the internal population of Jews with disdain, disrespect and subjects them to persecution, then that society is sliding towards authoritarian and totalitarian ideology.

The Jew is the canary in the coal mine.

Capitalism is the opposite of communism.

Is the Global Community of the World the opposer of the tiny state of Israel?

Think?

Why should the whole Global Community oppose the tiny State of Israel? Does it? What's abundantly clear?

Disturbingly  Insane Irrationality versus Logic and Reasoning and Sanity.

How should the tiny nation of Israel surrounded by the Arab and other Muslim nations with the most advanced Western civilised nations feel about this entire dire situation?

How can a nation of approximately 13 million people be the Enemy of the whole world of almost 8 billions? Who is the aggressor? Flea versus Dragon.

 

Think? 

Is might right? Is the coal face of this ridiculous enmity of the global community a true snapshot of the globally  (free?) elites and( free?) populations?

 When should love- your - neighbour become the default domicile of the world?

 

If the Jew-- as i stated above is the litmus test of the East and the West, what price freedom?

The question becomes" who is supposedly evil and who is really good?"

( Jesus is able to save the guttermost.

Jesus reaches deep to the uttermost)

( Opinion by Digital Anvil)

Life: The Risky Journey ?

 

 

 

Mis-takes are stepping stones to suc- cess. How can we ever grow, how can we ever learn, without taking risks?

 How can we ever get experience without making mistakes ?

Life is a risky business, We never quite know, if we throw ourselves into the Lifestream what is going to happen next.

Risk is really scary for some of us, but without it there is no reward! The successful are the outcome of many fails.So risk is about stepping into the unknown with courage but with the knowledge that if we want to get the most out of life,we simply need to have risk-taking as one of our enviable attributes. 

We do not need to replicate the explorers, who discovered the world to maximise the adventure of life, but we do need to take some risks.A smile is a risky move,but courage makes it shine. The next step is the plunge into the flow, after our 'tippy- toe' or testing of a smile.

Risk aversion is a consistent trembling in our life-journey. But all have felt the quake of nervousness,perhaps another shall take-up the cue and smile in return.A word or three shall set the trigger,you'll see.

As the book of Siddhartha suggests, one steps into the River of Life and the eddies and flows take one wherever!

(Opinion by Digital Anvil )

A comment by an intelligent friend:

Very well written and true for many! But to not risk much, much can not be gained!!

The Spice of Life?

RISK !

 

 Life-Journey IV

 

By the unmerited favour of God i am a Christian,by my actions and thoughts I am a great sinner, by calling, a wanderer who roams from space to space with a disappointing reputation of aligning and synthesizing the wishes,desires  and aspirations of the persons I meet.

He loves me as I am,even with my flaws.

( Opinion by Digital Anvil)

Activated Learning or Activism?

Some libraries have become hubs of activism. 

Talk to some librarians and they'll seem neutrally helpful, yet  their own beliefs are subtly dispensed. Some acknowledge their own worldview,so are truthful about it. While others attempt to hide their influences by guile. Therefore trampling fairness without relief. 

How should we treat the unfairness of their troubled worldview? Say nought?

Pressure is bought to bear. 

But defining intent can be a slippery slope.

While words are voiced concepts of the mind defining and revealing motive can be difficult indeed.

However we acknowledge  that our sensibilities of their words of their earnest worldview  comes from their core.

How can we apportion blame,hidden values or devious motive? A linguistic scientist I am not. Or clever detective I'm just a person who observes and who has a platform for my thoughts. 

 Are they ignorantly so or is it their aim to subvert? Should we expose them or do we find common ground?

Thankfully there are those whose manner or nature is to ennoble and to nuture. To enable a person to reach fulfillment,security and stability. If the individual is struggling, then the likelihood is that the family is struggling,so too the  local community may struggle, in turn the  wider society making it possible that the nation may struggle. Sounds farfetched?  The ripple affect or dominoes fall one by one. How do we demonstrate the riches of a free society whose goals and ambitions aren't just in our lifetime ( in  the here and now) but with a view to forever? The portal of Eternity!

(Opinion by Digital Anvil)

  

 

Act on Your Belief

 

 When President Lincoln signed the proclamation of emancipation, copies of it were sent to all points along the Northern line, where they were posted. Now, supposing a slave should have seen a copy of that proclamation and should have learned its contents. He might have known the fact, he might have assented to its justice, but if he had still continued to serve his old master as a slave his faith in the document would not have amounted to anything.

And so it is with us. A mere knowledge of the historical events of Christ’s life, or a simple intellectual assent to His teachings and His mission, will be of no help in a man’s life unless he adds to them a trustful surrender to the Lord’s loving kindness.

 

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^{Quotable Illustration} by D. L. Moody,

 

 

  

Sawdust or Bread?

 

If you go out to your garden and throw down some sawdust, the birds will not take any notice; but if you throw down some crumbs, you will find they will soon sweep down and pick them up.

The true child of God can tell the difference (so to speak) between sawdust and bread. Many so-called Christians are living on the world’s sawdust, instead of being nourished by the Bread that comes down from heaven. 

Nothing can satisfy the longings of the soul but the Word of the living God

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Quotable Illustration by D. L. Moody,

Classic Relief-- Never Runs Dry

 

  

Never Runs Dry

  

I remember being in a city where I noticed that the people resorted to a favorite well in one of the parks. I said to a man one day:

“Does the well never run dry?”

The man was drinking of the water out of the well; and as he stopped drinking, he smacked his lips, and said:

“They have never been able to pump it dry yet. They tried it a few years ago. They put the fire-engines to work, and tried all they could to pump the well dry; but they found there was a river flowing right under the city.”

Thank God, the well of salvation can never run dry either!

 

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    Quotable Illustration by         D. L. Moody,