A Change Of Mood

[poliphilo]

I used to write sermons for a living and I'm liable, if I don't keep a check on myself, to slide into pulpit rhetoric.

Which is one good reason for not writing too much about the tsunami. I don't trust myself not to be cheap.

But there's just this one thing I want to say: the public mood has changed. For the past couple of years it's been Them and Us and War against Terror and ugly, ugly, ugly, and now, suddenly, it's Brotherhood of Man. Westerner and Easterner, rich and poor, Muslim and Christian, believer and secularist- we're all in this together.

And wonderful things have happened. Pakistan sent aid to its old enemy India, national leaders have discovered that there are votes in being kind and the warplanes and warships are being used to carry food and medicine and water.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Thanks for mentioning all this. I have gotten stuck on my anger at the comparison to 9/11 and haven't been able to move beyond that; this nudged me out of that. So your sermon did some good.

(I'm just teasing, this was far from sermonlike.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The first time I tried to write it, it came out as a sermon, so I scrapped it and started again.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

You get major points for knowing the difference.:)