Download - icrisat

113
(7) Primate, come wage peace, not war.
In all that the Blogal Village Voice must do, it must be the voice of peace. The premise of war is that it is for peace
– a contradiction. I know this is almost impossible for primate bloggers who equate primal freedom with primeval
license, but primal blogging must follow AJ Muste’s dictum: ‘There is no way to peace; peace is the way.’ Now, in
this planet where every movement seems to point to violence, how can we bloggers blog in the name of peace?
At this point in time, I can think of no primal guide but this prayer of St Francis of Assisi:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Primates, unless we make a paradigm shift to love, in time Planet Earth will make a parabola shift and
launch us in a well-deserved orbit either toward the sun (fire) or away from the sun (ice) – then and there
Robert Frost’s poem ‘Fire And Ice’ will finally show us poetic justice.
Primate Change? Or Climate Change?