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Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Inconvenient Truth + Compassion I had alot of things I wanted to blog over the past few days but didn't get a chance to. Now that i've got time in my hands, I can't remember those things!!! How bad is my memory tell me about it. Ok. well, two of the things I wanna blog about is about Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, and the need to put my compassion for the down and out into action. The documentary movie "The Inconvenient Truth" sheds light as to the link between politics and the environment. With major superpowers like the US and China neglecting towards Mother Earth for past decades isn't helping the world we live in get better. Maybe economically, yes indeed. But if we look at the bigger picture, if we don't take care of our Earth, even if you're the richest man on earth you still cannot resist the forces of nature with your paper money. Or your gold bars, for that matter. It's just so silly how some people can have great foresight in financial investments, but when it comes to our environment, they are so short sighted. The good thing as revealed from the movie is that at least cities in US and China are gradually opening up to acknowledge the negative impacts of global warming and act upon it. It's still not too late. We are only qualified to talk about money if we treat our Earth well. There are some things money can't buy - in this case, it will be the amiability of Nature towards us humans. That movie was produced in 2006. I have heard of this documentary, just like Farenheit 9-11. But i never took it seriously until I watched it on Tuesday. And it impacted me big time, although it was a bit lengthy and boring cos of the facts and figures overload. Haha. I remember how I wanted to become an environmentalist when I was in Primary school. But as I grew up it started to die on me. I started throwing away papers that are printed on 1 side of the page only, when I could have used the other side for printing own notes or rough workings. And I started to give up sourcing for ozone friendly liquid papers, cos it's too inconvenient to do that. I also gave up throwing away reusable waste into the proper recycling bins, cos it became too inconvenient to deliberately search for one. Inconvenience. Alot of times because of this word 'inconvenience' we fail to do what is right and beneficial. That's the conclusion I reached after viewing the documentary. The fact that if we carry on trying to get rich globally by exploiting Earth, that the Earth's system will actually breakdown - is too inconvenient a truth for those who are greedy to accumulate large wealth in their lifetime. However, this principle is not just constrained within this topic of environment, but in other things in our lives as well. What are those things in our lives that we know is right to do, but we don't do it because of inconvenience? Gotta self-check too. Anyway, on to the second topic about putting my compassion for the unfortunate in action. I was glad that Pastor Tan shared with us his vision for the church towards the down and out. He hopes that one day, every person in church is voluntarily attached to a friendship with one handicapped/disabled/poor person in our community to serve him or her. He also shared about the potential influence schools can make to their communities within 1km of their radius. I thought that is ingenius. Well, God's ideas are always the best right? :p The point is that I'm so happy Pastor shared this openly on Tuesday meeting, because it is exactly what I hoped for myself and my peers in church. Sometimes we can be busy doing the 'right' things in/out of church, that we forget the basic message from the Bible - to love our neighbour as ourselves. And sometimes I felt like I'm a hypocrite, because we are told to strive to become the humblest and the lowest of all as Christians. But do we become humble and low (i'm not saying servile here, but the attitude of a servant) just by keeping ourselves busy in ministry and church? I felt that something is very wrong here. As such, I decided to sign up with a voluntary organization and commit myself twice a year to do voluntary work - at least for a start. That was before Pst shared his heart. =) I hope that will increase over the years, as I truly develop compassion for the down and out. And I also intend to encourage my friends to do the same, then we can do voluntary work together. Isn't that wonderful? Labels: contemplative, revelation 11:11 AM
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