Tuesday, July 08, 2008

"I'm not too concerned with what I am going to do.
I am more interested in who I am becoming.
I want to be a lover of God and people."
Shane Claiborne

Some humans are bored with life.
Some don't know what to to do.
Life is not satisfying
Life is a routine.
Life is ..............

I find that I am in love
Not with one person
Only.
I am in love with all human kind.


When I am with persons
I just want to love them
I don't know how to do
I just want to do it
So I do it.

The Widows Mite.
I was talking with Mr Singh during the Sunday night curry.
He is a great man of wisdom.
Sometimes difficult to understand.
He says himself, he is not good with English.
If you listen hard
gems of wisdom appear
factory of pearls.

We talked about the rich man
who went to church and threw in lots of coins
making a large noise on the metal plate
and then the Widow
who gently laid down the smallest coin
but
but
but
it was all she had ..............

That was a Jesus story
'Who gave the most?' he said ......

Mr Singh is broke.
He has started three building site jobs in the last six weeks
all of them, he has lasted three days.
Prejudice, tribalism ........
and for no good reason that he knows
nor was he given a reason ......
Before that he had worked on one big London site for 18 months.
Now rejected and it hit him hard x 3 .........

We talked a lot
and about that Widow.
The quote I used below
and 'Level Five Communication.
"Those with empty hands
cannot bestow any charity.
They cannot give anything
but themselves".

Mr Singh always pays for the curry.
Insists.
I was pleased when, on Sunday morning,
he agreed I could pay for the evening curry.
We talked about Richard and Jen
how one day they will be sitting at the same table.
(Much and deep love to you two -
I printed off all your blogs for Mr Singh)
At the end of the meal
He forced his last pound notes upon the waiter
and refused to let me pay.
Mr Singh is broke.
Yet he gives his last.................