By Ganjiki D Wayne
This task got me seriously thinking
How mysterious is this amazing creature?
A mix of sweet strawberry motherly love
And dedication to make the Maker proud
I thought of great mothers, their deeds
Dr. Ben Carson’s mother, Moses’ mother,
Jesus’, and St. Augustine’s, and mine
And even William Kapris’ mum!
Great mothers whose love out-value a million goldmines
Dad came down hard with a cane, belted
Mum came down with a soft heart, melted
Tears fell freely from mother’s eyes
Her children pained from being chastised
Tonnes of meals by mother’s hands we’ve had
A river-worth of water, detergent and sweat
A thousand hours spent cooking, cleaning, laundering...
Lives took shaped by mothers simply being
Even eternity’s secure salvation
By her faithful tears, constant supplication
She has drawn God’s Amazing Grace and Hand
By which now we call Jesus “Friend”
Can words surmise one of life’s greatest wonders?
A brilliant symphony of strength seemingly endless
And heart and soul truly tender, amazing softness
Amazing that in that softness we find shelter nonetheless
Only a mother could love a child the world hates
Longing to serve her children with divine grace
Seeing an angel while the world sees the devil
Only a mother only a mother...
Shall men be glad we don’t carry a mother’s load?
Oh but it’s not only just 'cause mothers are supposed to
It’s because they can take it and men cannot
Heap a mother’s burden on man’s lonely shoulder,
He shall not last long, that is the order
First to rise and last to lie
Almost like Master she seems to neither slumber nor sleep
Almost....
How did He think up such beauty, such strength, such devotion?
Mysterious beyond my simple comprehension
Be of good cheer oh dear mother!
You bear the complexity, love mysterious
Of the God who made this sweet Universe
In this short verse I have not justly described
Your infinite worth in this world in which we abide...
Have a glorious Mothers Day!
(8th May 2011)
Thoughts and Ideas for and regarding Papua New Guinea, the country I love.
23 August 2011
07 August 2011
The Case for Christianity in the Affairs of PNG
By Ganjiki D Wayne
As debate on reforms to our sex laws and other moral questions intensify, conversation often naturally flows on to Christianity and its application in our national legislative programs and social engineering projects. Why should its precepts and principles be applied in shaping our society? Why should it have prominent application over other religious/irreligious opinions? Why do we even call PNG a “Christian Country”???
Increasingly people question the merits of calling PNG a “Christian Country”. Christian leaders often say our Constitution declares PNG a “Christian country” so we must therefore adhere to Christian principles. They are mistaken. Our Constitution does not make such a declaration. However it does subscribe explicitly to the Christian principles.
I’d like to put forward the following argument in light of the Preamble of the Constitution—our “Declaration of Independence”. What does it really say?? The Preamble contains the “spirit” of the Constitution and by extension the Nation. In law the spirit of a document is a significant aid to interpretation. Without the letter the spirit is ineffective and dead; but without the spirit the letter is without ultimate meaning, without coherence and is vulnerable to abusive interpretation. Whilst many argue on the “letter” of the Constitution, few really understand its spirit.
Our founding fathers and the drafters of the Constitution—after nationwide consultation and affirmation from the people—put into the Preamble a pronouncement of certain fundamental beliefs and values that as a nation we would (or should) live by. These foundations provide a coherent ethos for our nation. Such an ethos is necessary for our society to maintain some coherence and, dare I say, order.
Some of those principles include: the declaration of being “united as one nation”; the memory of our ancestors; the people-power basis for our democracy; the prominence of the dignity of the human being and community; the rejection of violence and encouragement of peaceful consensus; and hard work and equitable sharing of benefits for all.
These are but few of the foundation pillars set for our country. Among them, the Preamble declares—in fact it pledges!—to “guard and pass on to those who come after us our noble traditions and the Christian principles that are ours now”. The writers included Christianity as a major facet for our national society. This has, through ignorance of the real wording of the Preamble, been taken to mean that the Constitution declares PNG to be a “Christian Country”. Perhaps it’s only a matter of argument whether it’s a declaration or not. But for me it’s quite clear. Our Declaration lays down a pledge to do two things for the Christian worldview in PNG: to guard it and to pass it on.
Christian principles form part of the fundamental philosophical makeup of our nation, meant to permeate not only the private lives of us the citizens but every objective strategy we think up for progress as a nation. As a people we are called by the supreme document of our land, to guard those Christian principles we had wisely adopted. So when challenged by philosophies and ideologies directly contradictory to those Christian principles, the Christian principles be given prominent consideration. That is our duty under the Constitution. And if our first Basic Social Obligation (under that same Preamble by the way) is anything to go by, we are called to “respect and act” in the spirit of the Constitution. Notice it does not say we must respect and act according to the “letter” of the Constitution. Our writers knew the fallacy of leaning on the letter alone. We must be guided by that “spirit”—and therefore by extension the Christian principles.
For those naysayers who insist we are not a nation built on Christian principles, our Constitution leaves no doubt (unlike the American Declaration of Independence which is not as explicit) that it is indeed part and parcel of our pillars. And a further reading into the writings of John Momis, Sir Michael Somare and late Bernard Narakobi will confirm this explicit subscription to the Gospel of Christ. And to say otherwise would be to disagree with the spirit of the Constitution...the same one that gives us the right to argue one way or the other.
Where there is a need for coherence in our society where shall we get it? Should we spin a bottle on every separate issue and apply that worldview to which it points; regardless of the contradiction and incoherence in society? I contend that we need no such exercise. Our Preamble—the Spirit of Our Nation—provides such a coherence, it defines us sufficiently. If we should look everywhere but there we may end up sufficiently confused, frustrated, without direction and without identity. And even if we gain so much ground yet we may effectively get nowhere...
God Bless Papua New Guinea!
Heavenise Day!
Gg
16 July 2011
Driving God Out of Our Conscience: What Then Shall Save PNG?
By Ganjiki D Wayne
It is becoming much clearer now. Our social reforms and legislative reforms, together with the learned opinions of “enlightened” Papua New Guineans, indicate an increasing line of thinking that PNG must no longer remain God-conscious if it is to be a modern State. Sentiments are creeping in that we no longer need God to prosper; that man is the Superior Being and must save himself without subscribing to a “make-belief, invisible being” to bail him out.
This subtle mindset-altering onslaught is sadly being pushed by a tiny yet powerful minority. Look around you and watch who controls our mainstream media. Watch what makes the news. Watch what doesn’t make the news. Watch the increasing use of words that sound worthy and noble yet promote a conscience that disagrees with the mind of God.Watch the onslaught of legitimate social concerns that, looking deeper, stamp out the Need for a God.
Nice words such as “empowerment”, “freedom of choice”, “human rights” are eating away at God’s perfect order; breaking down all absolutes and making everything relative. Even the term “Unconstitutional” is made to drive a premise that what values we held on to as an ancient people are no longer applicable and relevant. Watch how acknowledging God may soon become Unconstitutional…if those who believe in Him stay ignorant or silent. Watch how His Moral Standards are brought into question by champions of social reform.
I recently came across our Education Department’s “Behaviour Management” policy: a policy guideline to improve the behavior of school children. One page has a list of roles for students. Role # 2: “Treat peers in a caring and friendly way regardless of their gender, sexuality, health, disability, religion, race or cultural background.” Am I the only one who sees a problem with one of these standards? “Sexuality” has been included in a yardstick that would usually only have “colour, creed and sex” not “sexuality”. That wasn’t a basis for potential discrimination…until a depraved form of sexuality burst into the conscience of man and society; pushed of course by those of that “sexual orientation”, and those not accepting God’s moral order, desiring to have the society accept it as an “alternative lifestyle”.
Now my children who would most likely go to public schools will have to be taught that “homosexuality” is an alternative, legitimate orientation just like heterosexuality. The child must therefore be respectful to his male classmate who finds his male best friend sexually appealing. A prerequisite for not being discriminatory is the acceptance of the “naturality” and “okayness” of that sexuality. Now the “sinner” will be the discriminator and not the practicing homosexual person. See how social values are engineered and re-engineered to remove the God conscience?? Surely you see it!
And the terribly sad thing about that National Policy: Nothing supporting the input of Christ’s Body: The Church. Nothing Religious. Nothing Christian. It’s all just Man-Made solutions…Solutions to Man-Made Problems.
Are there any God-believing people in our Education Department (or anywhere) who can discern such subtle God-removing tactics and oppose them bravely? Shall we allow one advisor and one technical officer, from an international organization with lots of money, to determine the conscience of our nation? I say…no, I scream…NO!
How one word, unchecked and unquestioned by ‘enlightened’ Papua New Guineans, ushers in a no-God conscience in the very young?! Sounding good and sounding right does not make something right nor good….unless of course if we judge so by man’s standards—ever-changing, ever-differing, ever-failing, ever-seeking, merry-go-round
man…
If we allow the removal the God-conscience…WHAT THEN SHALL SAVE PAPUA NEW GUINEA???
I say only GOD…so let’s keep Him!
HEAVENISE DAY!
Gg
It is becoming much clearer now. Our social reforms and legislative reforms, together with the learned opinions of “enlightened” Papua New Guineans, indicate an increasing line of thinking that PNG must no longer remain God-conscious if it is to be a modern State. Sentiments are creeping in that we no longer need God to prosper; that man is the Superior Being and must save himself without subscribing to a “make-belief, invisible being” to bail him out.
This subtle mindset-altering onslaught is sadly being pushed by a tiny yet powerful minority. Look around you and watch who controls our mainstream media. Watch what makes the news. Watch what doesn’t make the news. Watch the increasing use of words that sound worthy and noble yet promote a conscience that disagrees with the mind of God.Watch the onslaught of legitimate social concerns that, looking deeper, stamp out the Need for a God.
Nice words such as “empowerment”, “freedom of choice”, “human rights” are eating away at God’s perfect order; breaking down all absolutes and making everything relative. Even the term “Unconstitutional” is made to drive a premise that what values we held on to as an ancient people are no longer applicable and relevant. Watch how acknowledging God may soon become Unconstitutional…if those who believe in Him stay ignorant or silent. Watch how His Moral Standards are brought into question by champions of social reform.
I recently came across our Education Department’s “Behaviour Management” policy: a policy guideline to improve the behavior of school children. One page has a list of roles for students. Role # 2: “Treat peers in a caring and friendly way regardless of their gender, sexuality, health, disability, religion, race or cultural background.” Am I the only one who sees a problem with one of these standards? “Sexuality” has been included in a yardstick that would usually only have “colour, creed and sex” not “sexuality”. That wasn’t a basis for potential discrimination…until a depraved form of sexuality burst into the conscience of man and society; pushed of course by those of that “sexual orientation”, and those not accepting God’s moral order, desiring to have the society accept it as an “alternative lifestyle”.
Now my children who would most likely go to public schools will have to be taught that “homosexuality” is an alternative, legitimate orientation just like heterosexuality. The child must therefore be respectful to his male classmate who finds his male best friend sexually appealing. A prerequisite for not being discriminatory is the acceptance of the “naturality” and “okayness” of that sexuality. Now the “sinner” will be the discriminator and not the practicing homosexual person. See how social values are engineered and re-engineered to remove the God conscience?? Surely you see it!
And the terribly sad thing about that National Policy: Nothing supporting the input of Christ’s Body: The Church. Nothing Religious. Nothing Christian. It’s all just Man-Made solutions…Solutions to Man-Made Problems.
Are there any God-believing people in our Education Department (or anywhere) who can discern such subtle God-removing tactics and oppose them bravely? Shall we allow one advisor and one technical officer, from an international organization with lots of money, to determine the conscience of our nation? I say…no, I scream…NO!
How one word, unchecked and unquestioned by ‘enlightened’ Papua New Guineans, ushers in a no-God conscience in the very young?! Sounding good and sounding right does not make something right nor good….unless of course if we judge so by man’s standards—ever-changing, ever-differing, ever-failing, ever-seeking, merry-go-round
man…
If we allow the removal the God-conscience…WHAT THEN SHALL SAVE PAPUA NEW GUINEA???
I say only GOD…so let’s keep Him!
HEAVENISE DAY!
Gg
Driving God Out of Our Conscience: What Then Shall Save PNG?
By Ganjiki D Wayne
It is becoming much clearer now. Our social reforms and legislative reforms, together with the learned opinions of “enlightened” Papua New Guineans, indicate an increasing line of thinking that PNG must no longer remain God-conscious if it is to be a modern State. Sentiments are creeping in that we no longer need God to prosper; that man is the Superior Being and must save himself without subscribing to a “make-belief, invisible being” to bail him out.
This subtle mindset-altering onslaught is sadly being pushed by a tiny yet powerful minority. Look around you and watch who controls our mainstream media. Watch what makes the news. Watch what doesn’t make the news. Watch the increasing use of words that sound worthy and noble yet promote a conscience that disagrees with the mind of God.Watch the onslaught of legitimate social concerns that, looking deeper, stamp out the Need for a God.
Nice words such as “empowerment”, “freedom of choice”, “human rights” are eating away at God’s perfect order; breaking down all absolutes and making everything relative. Even the term “Unconstitutional” is made to drive a premise that what values we held on to as an ancient people are no longer applicable and relevant. Watch how acknowledging God may soon become Unconstitutional…if those who believe in Him stay ignorant or silent. Watch how His Moral Standards are brought into question by champions of social reform.
I recently came across our Education Department’s “Behaviour Management” policy: a policy guideline to improve the behavior of school children. One page has a list of roles for students. Role # 2: “Treat peers in a caring and friendly way regardless of their gender, sexuality, health, disability, religion, race or cultural background.” Am I the only one who sees a problem with one of these standards? “Sexuality” has been included in a yardstick that would usually only have “colour, creed and sex” not “sexuality”. That wasn’t a basis for potential discrimination…until a depraved form of sexuality burst into the conscience of man and society; pushed of course by those of that “sexual orientation”, and those not accepting God’s moral order, desiring to have the society accept it as an “alternative lifestyle”.
Now my children who would most likely go to public schools will have to be taught that “homosexuality” is an alternative, legitimate orientation just like heterosexuality. The child must therefore be respectful to his male classmate who finds his male best friend sexually appealing. A prerequisite for not being discriminatory is the acceptance of the “naturality” and “okayness” of that sexuality. Now the “sinner” will be the discriminator and not the practicing homosexual person. See how social values are engineered and re-engineered to remove the God conscience?? Surely you see it!
And the terribly sad thing about that National Policy: Nothing supporting the input of Christ’s Body: The Church. Nothing Religious. Nothing Christian. It’s all just Man-Made solutions…Solutions to Man-Made Problems.
Are there any God-believing people in our Education Department (or anywhere) who can discern such subtle God-removing tactics and oppose them bravely? Shall we allow one advisor and one technical officer, from an international organization with lots of money, to determine the conscience of our nation? I say…no, I scream…NO!
How one word, unchecked and unquestioned by ‘enlightened’ Papua New Guineans, ushers in a no-God conscience in the very young?! Sounding good and sounding right does not make something right nor good….unless of course if we judge so by man’s standards—ever-changing, ever-differing, ever-failing, ever-seeking, merry-go-round
man…
If we allow the removal the God-conscience…WHAT THEN SHALL SAVE PAPUA NEW GUINEA???
I say only GOD…so let’s keep Him!
HEAVENISE DAY!
Gg
It is becoming much clearer now. Our social reforms and legislative reforms, together with the learned opinions of “enlightened” Papua New Guineans, indicate an increasing line of thinking that PNG must no longer remain God-conscious if it is to be a modern State. Sentiments are creeping in that we no longer need God to prosper; that man is the Superior Being and must save himself without subscribing to a “make-belief, invisible being” to bail him out.
This subtle mindset-altering onslaught is sadly being pushed by a tiny yet powerful minority. Look around you and watch who controls our mainstream media. Watch what makes the news. Watch what doesn’t make the news. Watch the increasing use of words that sound worthy and noble yet promote a conscience that disagrees with the mind of God.Watch the onslaught of legitimate social concerns that, looking deeper, stamp out the Need for a God.
Nice words such as “empowerment”, “freedom of choice”, “human rights” are eating away at God’s perfect order; breaking down all absolutes and making everything relative. Even the term “Unconstitutional” is made to drive a premise that what values we held on to as an ancient people are no longer applicable and relevant. Watch how acknowledging God may soon become Unconstitutional…if those who believe in Him stay ignorant or silent. Watch how His Moral Standards are brought into question by champions of social reform.
I recently came across our Education Department’s “Behaviour Management” policy: a policy guideline to improve the behavior of school children. One page has a list of roles for students. Role # 2: “Treat peers in a caring and friendly way regardless of their gender, sexuality, health, disability, religion, race or cultural background.” Am I the only one who sees a problem with one of these standards? “Sexuality” has been included in a yardstick that would usually only have “colour, creed and sex” not “sexuality”. That wasn’t a basis for potential discrimination…until a depraved form of sexuality burst into the conscience of man and society; pushed of course by those of that “sexual orientation”, and those not accepting God’s moral order, desiring to have the society accept it as an “alternative lifestyle”.
Now my children who would most likely go to public schools will have to be taught that “homosexuality” is an alternative, legitimate orientation just like heterosexuality. The child must therefore be respectful to his male classmate who finds his male best friend sexually appealing. A prerequisite for not being discriminatory is the acceptance of the “naturality” and “okayness” of that sexuality. Now the “sinner” will be the discriminator and not the practicing homosexual person. See how social values are engineered and re-engineered to remove the God conscience?? Surely you see it!
And the terribly sad thing about that National Policy: Nothing supporting the input of Christ’s Body: The Church. Nothing Religious. Nothing Christian. It’s all just Man-Made solutions…Solutions to Man-Made Problems.
Are there any God-believing people in our Education Department (or anywhere) who can discern such subtle God-removing tactics and oppose them bravely? Shall we allow one advisor and one technical officer, from an international organization with lots of money, to determine the conscience of our nation? I say…no, I scream…NO!
How one word, unchecked and unquestioned by ‘enlightened’ Papua New Guineans, ushers in a no-God conscience in the very young?! Sounding good and sounding right does not make something right nor good….unless of course if we judge so by man’s standards—ever-changing, ever-differing, ever-failing, ever-seeking, merry-go-round
man…
If we allow the removal the God-conscience…WHAT THEN SHALL SAVE PAPUA NEW GUINEA???
I say only GOD…so let’s keep Him!
HEAVENISE DAY!
Gg
Driving God Out of Our Conscience: What Then Shall Save PNG?
By Ganjiki D Wayne
It is becoming much clearer now. Our social reforms and legislative reforms, together with the learned opinions of “enlightened” Papua New Guineans, indicate an increasing line of thinking that PNG must no longer remain God-conscious if it is to be a modern State. Sentiments are creeping in that we no longer need God to prosper; that man is the Superior Being and must save himself without subscribing to a “make-belief, invisible being” to bail him out.
This subtle mindset-altering onslaught is sadly being pushed by a tiny yet powerful minority. Look around you and watch who controls our mainstream media. Watch what makes the news. Watch what doesn’t make the news. Watch the increasing use of words that sound worthy and noble yet promote a conscience that disagrees with the mind of God.Watch the onslaught of legitimate social concerns that, looking deeper, stamp out the Need for a God.
Nice words such as “empowerment”, “freedom of choice”, “human rights” are eating away at God’s perfect order; breaking down all absolutes and making everything relative. Even the term “Unconstitutional” is made to drive a premise that what values we held on to as an ancient people are no longer applicable and relevant. Watch how acknowledging God may soon become Unconstitutional…if those who believe in Him stay ignorant or silent. Watch how His Moral Standards are brought into question by champions of social reform.
I recently came across our Education Department’s “Behaviour Management” policy: a policy guideline to improve the behavior of school children. One page has a list of roles for students. Role # 2: “Treat peers in a caring and friendly way regardless of their gender, sexuality, health, disability, religion, race or cultural background.” Am I the only one who sees a problem with one of these standards? “Sexuality” has been included in a yardstick that would usually only have “colour, creed and sex” not “sexuality”. That wasn’t a basis for potential discrimination…until a depraved form of sexuality burst into the conscience of man and society; pushed of course by those of that “sexual orientation”, and those not accepting God’s moral order, desiring to have the society accept it as an “alternative lifestyle”.
Now my children who would most likely go to public schools will have to be taught that “homosexuality” is an alternative, legitimate orientation just like heterosexuality. The child must therefore be respectful to his male classmate who finds his male best friend sexually appealing. A prerequisite for not being discriminatory is the acceptance of the “naturality” and “okayness” of that sexuality. Now the “sinner” will be the discriminator and not the practicing homosexual person. See how social values are engineered and re-engineered to remove the God conscience?? Surely you see it!
And the terribly sad thing about that National Policy: Nothing supporting the input of Christ’s Body: The Church. Nothing Religious. Nothing Christian. It’s all just Man-Made solutions…Solutions to Man-Made Problems.
Are there any God-believing people in our Education Department (or anywhere) who can discern such subtle God-removing tactics and oppose them bravely? Shall we allow one advisor and one technical officer, from an international organization with lots of money, to determine the conscience of our nation? I say…no, I scream…NO!
How one word, unchecked and unquestioned by ‘enlightened’ Papua New Guineans, ushers in a no-God conscience in the very young?! Sounding good and sounding right does not make something right nor good….unless of course if we judge so by man’s standards—ever-changing, ever-differing, ever-failing, ever-seeking, merry-go-round
man…
If we allow the removal the God-conscience…WHAT THEN SHALL SAVE PAPUA NEW GUINEA???
I say only GOD…so let’s keep Him!
HEAVENISE DAY!
Gg
It is becoming much clearer now. Our social reforms and legislative reforms, together with the learned opinions of “enlightened” Papua New Guineans, indicate an increasing line of thinking that PNG must no longer remain God-conscious if it is to be a modern State. Sentiments are creeping in that we no longer need God to prosper; that man is the Superior Being and must save himself without subscribing to a “make-belief, invisible being” to bail him out.
This subtle mindset-altering onslaught is sadly being pushed by a tiny yet powerful minority. Look around you and watch who controls our mainstream media. Watch what makes the news. Watch what doesn’t make the news. Watch the increasing use of words that sound worthy and noble yet promote a conscience that disagrees with the mind of God.Watch the onslaught of legitimate social concerns that, looking deeper, stamp out the Need for a God.
Nice words such as “empowerment”, “freedom of choice”, “human rights” are eating away at God’s perfect order; breaking down all absolutes and making everything relative. Even the term “Unconstitutional” is made to drive a premise that what values we held on to as an ancient people are no longer applicable and relevant. Watch how acknowledging God may soon become Unconstitutional…if those who believe in Him stay ignorant or silent. Watch how His Moral Standards are brought into question by champions of social reform.
I recently came across our Education Department’s “Behaviour Management” policy: a policy guideline to improve the behavior of school children. One page has a list of roles for students. Role # 2: “Treat peers in a caring and friendly way regardless of their gender, sexuality, health, disability, religion, race or cultural background.” Am I the only one who sees a problem with one of these standards? “Sexuality” has been included in a yardstick that would usually only have “colour, creed and sex” not “sexuality”. That wasn’t a basis for potential discrimination…until a depraved form of sexuality burst into the conscience of man and society; pushed of course by those of that “sexual orientation”, and those not accepting God’s moral order, desiring to have the society accept it as an “alternative lifestyle”.
Now my children who would most likely go to public schools will have to be taught that “homosexuality” is an alternative, legitimate orientation just like heterosexuality. The child must therefore be respectful to his male classmate who finds his male best friend sexually appealing. A prerequisite for not being discriminatory is the acceptance of the “naturality” and “okayness” of that sexuality. Now the “sinner” will be the discriminator and not the practicing homosexual person. See how social values are engineered and re-engineered to remove the God conscience?? Surely you see it!
And the terribly sad thing about that National Policy: Nothing supporting the input of Christ’s Body: The Church. Nothing Religious. Nothing Christian. It’s all just Man-Made solutions…Solutions to Man-Made Problems.
Are there any God-believing people in our Education Department (or anywhere) who can discern such subtle God-removing tactics and oppose them bravely? Shall we allow one advisor and one technical officer, from an international organization with lots of money, to determine the conscience of our nation? I say…no, I scream…NO!
How one word, unchecked and unquestioned by ‘enlightened’ Papua New Guineans, ushers in a no-God conscience in the very young?! Sounding good and sounding right does not make something right nor good….unless of course if we judge so by man’s standards—ever-changing, ever-differing, ever-failing, ever-seeking, merry-go-round
man…
If we allow the removal the God-conscience…WHAT THEN SHALL SAVE PAPUA NEW GUINEA???
I say only GOD…so let’s keep Him!
HEAVENISE DAY!
Gg
28 June 2011
Dear Patriots,
Trying times are before us. Our identity is being challenged. The Pillars on which our nation was built have become unrecognisable as we, in embracing modernism, have buried our roots; forgotten that which our fathers, in Providence of Wisdom, had laid down as platforms for an ideal PNG.
Our values are all muddled up that we do not know what is important anymore. In riding the Waves of Change we have not cared to look ahead at where those Waves would eventually crash. But we have jumped on it for the ride...because the world rides it.
What uniqueness does PNG have to offer the world if we strive only to become like the rest of the world? What will make us special? Is it just our natural beauty; our resources?? What about offering to the World the unique and outstanding “PNG Way”; our Values, our Way of Life? Our Worldview: A splendid mix of our noble traditions, our adopted Christian principles and the accurate philosophies of right living and conduct. Is that impossible? Is that not a greater commodity? Is that not an extravagant contribution to the world? A legacy worth working for and protecting?
In our dash to conform to the world let us be reminded that we are a unique people. That we can choose, in our wisdom, what is best for us and our nation. That we can choose timeless principles to guide us in the process of decision-making; in maturity, deep thought and sound reasoning.
These are possible. Spend some time to reflect on our nation. Ask questions of yourself that you may not have asked before. Probe our identity and measure it against the world. If We can no longer separate what is PNG with the World....then we have lost who we are.
God Bless Papua New Guinea
Heavenise Week!
Trying times are before us. Our identity is being challenged. The Pillars on which our nation was built have become unrecognisable as we, in embracing modernism, have buried our roots; forgotten that which our fathers, in Providence of Wisdom, had laid down as platforms for an ideal PNG.
Our values are all muddled up that we do not know what is important anymore. In riding the Waves of Change we have not cared to look ahead at where those Waves would eventually crash. But we have jumped on it for the ride...because the world rides it.
What uniqueness does PNG have to offer the world if we strive only to become like the rest of the world? What will make us special? Is it just our natural beauty; our resources?? What about offering to the World the unique and outstanding “PNG Way”; our Values, our Way of Life? Our Worldview: A splendid mix of our noble traditions, our adopted Christian principles and the accurate philosophies of right living and conduct. Is that impossible? Is that not a greater commodity? Is that not an extravagant contribution to the world? A legacy worth working for and protecting?
In our dash to conform to the world let us be reminded that we are a unique people. That we can choose, in our wisdom, what is best for us and our nation. That we can choose timeless principles to guide us in the process of decision-making; in maturity, deep thought and sound reasoning.
These are possible. Spend some time to reflect on our nation. Ask questions of yourself that you may not have asked before. Probe our identity and measure it against the world. If We can no longer separate what is PNG with the World....then we have lost who we are.
God Bless Papua New Guinea
Heavenise Week!
02 May 2011
Kumbux Generosity
This weekend I had my paradigm shift regarding generosity. It came from a little 5yr old boy named Hans Kumbugawi Pohau, my nephew. His grandma, my “liklik mama” (dad’s sis), was with him in Wewak and was on her way to visit us here in POM. Little Kumbux took out from his pocket the only coins he had, 60t, handed to grandma and told her: “Em blo ol papa blo mi Walo, Ofa na Gg (This is for my fathers Walo, Ofa and Gg)” (my brothers n I). Grandma tried to push him a little to spend it on peanuts or gum but he was adamant the money should come to us. Mama arrived on Saturday, handed over the 60t and told us it was from our son Kumbux. We got 20t each. My brothers and I were so moved by the gesture from an innocent little boy who cared enough for his “liklik papas” to send us all he had in his pocket.
I think we I felt a bit what Jesus felt when he saw an old widow put two coins into the offering collection at the Temple. He said “This woman has given more than anyone. For in their abundance they have offered to God, but she in her poverty has put in ALL she had to live on”. I never knew how much He really appreciated that poor widow until my nephew sent me his only pocket money.
Real generosity is not in giving abundance but in giving what we cannot afford to give: no matter how small or big. The receiver of such giving cannot help but be overwhelmed by the gesture. I had that experience with my nephew. It’s changed my perspective now of real generosity. And I’m sharing this so you could also have a glimpse of it.
This week on be GENEROUS. Give what you cannot afford to give. God did it. The old widow did. And 5yr-old Kumbugawi did it! It’s not easy but it changes the world!
Heavenise Week!
Ganjiki
2/05/11
I think we I felt a bit what Jesus felt when he saw an old widow put two coins into the offering collection at the Temple. He said “This woman has given more than anyone. For in their abundance they have offered to God, but she in her poverty has put in ALL she had to live on”. I never knew how much He really appreciated that poor widow until my nephew sent me his only pocket money.
Real generosity is not in giving abundance but in giving what we cannot afford to give: no matter how small or big. The receiver of such giving cannot help but be overwhelmed by the gesture. I had that experience with my nephew. It’s changed my perspective now of real generosity. And I’m sharing this so you could also have a glimpse of it.
This week on be GENEROUS. Give what you cannot afford to give. God did it. The old widow did. And 5yr-old Kumbugawi did it! It’s not easy but it changes the world!
Heavenise Week!
Ganjiki
2/05/11
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