i feel quite emotional still..... it's an odd one this.... for years the world has been divided well pretty much so with the notion of revolutionaries and sympathies come naturally to some and are unthinkable to others kindov troubled in with the black and white of socialism/communism etc and the who's side are you on if you dare speak out against the friends of your nation!.... but those who have who speak the fluency of idealism .... you see it's so often a debate about chains and breaking chains and yokes .... and long listening has left me with the obvious disinterest of a ruling elite in the plight of the poor... and issue of is it right or not... is the ruling elite generating suffering for the poor or are the poor just there cos well life's not fair don't expect it to be....
i feel emotional you geussed it we are talking the death of Hugo Chavez.. and so there i am thinking somehow oh no and somehow thinking hey he gets in the news from time to time controversially through the odd peculiar statement.... and you know what....that outpouring of grief has caught my breath and i try to find out about him a bit more.... and am surprised at how little i know... you see what has attracted my interest is the revolutionary interest in the poor.... a claim by someone that he had helped the poor that he had brought down the rich poor divide and redistributed wealth in his country.... i was interested to see he had been a bit of a revolutionary himself joining the military and attemtping a coup but he was pretty determined it seems and with that determination there is a vibrant result....
i didn't used to be a fan of the revolutionaries Fidel castro was the enemy (according to all the rhetoric i had ever heard) Che gevara was dead... what did he do then?..... but for a long while now i have been intrigued in well .... the poor suffer badly when there is no-one to help them ... i have been intrigued with the church's response at time to merrily turn a blind eye at times to we have to make a stand in the here and now..... injustice.... who cares.... there is a book there is a film it's called the motorcycle diaries.... and it is the story of a journey of a middleclass medical student from middle class buenos aires to help out at a mission many miles away.... it is the story of Che Geuvara.... and it is his sotry of coming of age.... and there is a critical moment where to be honest he could well have gone to the Gospel but he could not sit by and watch what happened throughout america what he had seen and the church was hardly behaving like Jesus as he was shocked at the the leprosy mission by the people devoted by GOD... he became a man of action and was someone who didn't survive the conlict and yet he remains a suymbol of hope for freedom.... you see he had 3 choices.... to go with his heart to give his heart to GOD or to smother it for an easy existence... i mean how can we not cry at the story he tells just a tiny handful of incidents but defining moments of endemic inequalities accross several countries.... and yet these people become the enemy and everyone works terribly hard not to change anything .....
i am glad that they manned up while i am not advocating violence by any means no me i believe in the Gospel but so do the people who do nothing ....
and it is in recent past that some passionate people have become elected across countries in South America the first indigenous person a flux of women leaders ... ..people with a passion of what is wrong needs fixing for the endemically poor.... the endemically politically disenfranchised...
i just wish we had more imagination over here and more recognition that things needs fixing.. and i hope the love affair of breaking chains continues.... there's ways and there is wasys...
the expectation of the Gospel is high some of the disciples expect a taking up of arms and is that not just what Jesus calls for? ... only we don't quite get what that means when it does not involve lots of bloodshed... i mean seriously now what is the difference between Jesus and not doing anything at all? even when it hurts to
GOD BLESS!
Peace and Love,
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