Jottings

2.5.14

– Individuals & communities outlive & outvalue institutions & traditions!

– Anecdotal evidence

– Signage – identification, warning & direction

– Junta

– Activism is NOT the only way to transformation!

Improved efficiency does not always require radical reform…

– Fatah & Hamas

– 1. Pas. Selvaraj funeral sermon.

Sadha’s birthday sermon.

My birthday wishes – not for ‘many more happy returns…’

Remembering the bomb blast in Chennai.

2. What is life?

Birth + death + resurrection!

The old passes away to make way for the new. The death of the old becomes the ground for new to take root!

The food-chain; life-cycle; skin-cells; earth’s limited resources and the constant turnover of all things…

The sowing of the seed and the springing of the plant. Unless a grain of wheat……

The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.

3. “Death is the engine of life” – the Good News of Jesus Christ – the power of the Cross!

Birth, baptism, funeral

Womb ~ tomb

The physical as symbolizing the spiritual!

4. The process of continual renewal – overcoming the fear of death (loss, failure, weakness, etc.). Hope of another beginning! Gladly let go of what we are holding on to, so that we might inherit what is beyond imagination!

Spiritual growth – the step from one level to another goes through death & resurrection. Not adding, but substituting!

When we believe & practice this truth, we are truly & fully alive (abundant/everlasting life!)

5. When we sacrifice our life for a cause to make the future bright, we will never lose our soul!

3.5.14

– Whoever says that money is not important has never suffered poverty!

– Movies:

“Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Why this title??

Hysterical pregnancy

Feminism & the common woman

The animus in woman

Vs.

The anima in man

The masculine woman & the feminine man…

– BYOB

– Movies:

“The Hunter”

Killing to save!

– But aren’t godliness & contentment opposites?!

– What I must

Vs.

What I want

The resolution:

Just being (without wanting, having or doing)!

– “Hi Masi… I think the plan/idea to make lot of money in order to help others or uplift the poor is NOT a good (or spiritual) one…”

– Movies:

“In the mood for love”

No way to escape regret!