Change is in our hands

When I was in college I witnessed many a good expression of concern bout the country from the ‘elites’. Expressions of anger and disgust at the blatant corruption in our government came from many lips. When we had the two unrests of our time patriotic outburst proceeded in our gatherings. Orators were always available to stir the hearts and minds of other students to rise to stand against an “injustice”.

From those same lips on other days I heard loud cursing and profanity. I watched the unbridled chewing and spitting of beetlenut all over the campus pavements and the busstop…from those same lips. Those same hands lifted up against a macro-injustice would vandalise property, toss rubbish cans, paint aliases on toilet walls, litter freely. Drunk and disorderly, ethnic differences and poor sportsmanship on weekends resulted in ethnic wars--from the ‘cream of the crop’ in a place that literally meant ‘unity in diversity’. I watched the abuse of women by this nation’s elites and wondered if our college education ever helped us appreciate the value and dignity of women.

Our definition of corruption extended to everything apart from ourselves. It rested on the bureaucracy and the politician but not on who you and I are. We seemed immune and yet there were not more darker hearts and minds than those supposedly more “enlightened”. We were hypocrites. And we still are (yes me too!). With our left hand we wish for change and progress. With our right we destroy it. Obviously one hand is more powerful.

MJ’s “Man in the Mirror” sums it up in our contemporary language. But throughout eternity the ever-applicable formula for change of any society first came from the SOURCE Himself in Whom no hypocrisy is found:

“YOU HYPOCRITE, first remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” ~Jesus

Senisim Pasin, Senisim PNG!

God Bless Papua New Guinea

Ganjiki