Jesus Dreamt

JESUS DREAMT

Those who believe and is baptized will be saved.
Jesus (Mark 16: 16a)

Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt.

Jesus had dreams. He had great dreams about himself, his Father and the world around his and called it as the kingdom of God. His dreams were positive and big enough to inspire himself and others. The power of his dreams helped him to climb even up to the Calvary passionately. He believed in the beauty of those dreams. So he said: Those who believe and baptized will be saved. (Mk 16:16a)

Call to baptism is an invitation to participate in the great dreams of Jesus. It is a call to have dreams in one’s life. One who is baptized is the one who shares the great dream of Jesus- the kingdom of God. Jesus wanted his followers to dream along with him. This is because; he was very much convinced about the power of positive dreams. Dreams always precede reality. Yesterdays’ dreams are today’s reality and today’s dreams will be the future of humanity.

The dreams Jesus intended here are not what one experience in sleep or in daydreaming. They are of different stuff.

Jesus, the Positive Guru

Positive attitude of Jesus

When we see a glass with water up to its half level we can perceive it into two ways: ‘a half empty glass’ or ‘ a half filled glass’. A man with the positive attitude perceives it as half filled glass. Jesus always had a positive attitude. So he watched a widow putting two copper coins into the treasury and recognized it as the greatest of all contributions. (Luke. 21:1-4)

Positive vision of Jesus

Jesus had a positive vision for him God appeared as a compassionate and forgiving father who can embrace a prodigal son (Luke 15:11-24) or could leave his 99 sheep for the sake of a lost one (Luke 15: 1-10). Being the children of same, one, compassionate god he realized the bond of brotherhood between all human beings in a very special way.

Positive action of Jesus

He opted only positive actions. He not only preached to love enemies (Matthew 5:43) and to show the next cheek to those who strike on one but also practiced it in his life by forgiving his enemies on the cross and praying for them. (Luke 23:4)

This is the good news Jesus suggested to his disciples: positive attitude, positive vision and positive action. And he commissioned: “Go into all the world and proclaim Good news to the whole creation.” (Mark 16:5)

Australia has spoken!

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Finally, Australia has spoken... They proved that they've got a heart! good.

Howard looses the general election 2007.. He may even lose his seat.

Australia has spoken!

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Finally, Australia has spoken... They proved that they've got a heart! good.

Howard looses the general election 2007.. He may even lose his seat.

Last Question to Mr Howard - Letter to the Editor (The Age)

Mr Howard says that he would not take action against Ms Chijoff even if her husband was involved in the bogus Islamic ALP pamphlet for 'her husband may have done a foolish thing, that should not automatically be visited upon her'. Good moral principle, huh (if Ms Chijoff is clean!!)!

What was your moral stand when you proudly announced the detention of Dr Mohamed Haneef only because he was the cousin of someone involved in a criminal act abroad? Morality of convenience, huh? Australia may deserve a leader not a hypocrite (but it's up to them!).

Australia Decides 2007

The Australian Federal Elections are due next Saturday. I am not an astrologer to predict the winner!

Kevin Rudd's Labor has been consistently leading the opinion polls (as they did in all previous elections they lost) against Howard's Liberals. I just make an analysis of the outcome, whether it is Labor or Liberal.

Kevin seems to have a plan. He identifies the importance of education in Australia to compete with India and China. I think that's a good move. The present economic boom in Australia is supported by the mining boom alone. That will be there. But equipping young Australian with necessary skills will give them a cutting edge, no doubt. His policies on climate change and Iraq seems to be more ethical. Kevin is good for Australia.

On the other hand Howard is stuck up with his Work choices, which will give more rights to bosses for "Hire and Fire". The common people will still enjoy an apparent economic prosperity out of the economic boom sustained by 'mining or resource' industry. (The logic is simple: allow big bosses to exploit the resources - India and China will buy it. Get peanuts out of the bosses in the form of minimal taxes and share it with 20 million - not a big deal). But he will sell uranium to India! He will still support skilled migrants to support the bosses. He wont quit from Iraq and keep Australia a target of extremists well ahead of countries like India, which suffered very badly from extremism in the past. He may be good for countries like India.

PS: However the 'climate clever' tactics of Howard will not have a fare run in international arena, I guess. It's not 16th century to fool India and China to take responsibility of mess created by 'worst emitters' in the world. They are in command too.

Racism Card of Ponting - Letter send to the Editor - MX

Ponting accuses India of racism, wow! (MX 18th Oct). Let's dig out. As we all know, racism is discriminating against, or vilifying, a person because of his/her race. The question here to ask, "was the crowd making monkey noises being racist, or was that just harmless fun? (I am talking about the the first one at Vadhora, which spurred the whole debate).

Ponting says that the monkey's color is dark and so it is aimed at dark-skinned Symonds. What Ponting thinks of the color of the "so called" abusers. Symonds was the only person in the entire Australian team whom the spectators could easily identify with. Moreover, almost all of the West Indian players have always commanded respect from millions of Indian cricket fans for their great cricketing skills and decent behavior. Then what went wrong? As Indian officials said the Indian fans might have targeted Symonds just because of his heated exchanges with Indian bowlers Harbhajan Singh and Shantakumaran Sreesanth. It has got nothing to do with his race.

Cricket was a gentlemen's game until "some teams" made racial slurs and sledging an art and tactics in the field to intimidate their opponents to win few games. So, Ponting, we also hope that that does not happen again in any another cricket match, because it leaves bad taste to everybody's mouth. Let's play decent, good cricket, free of sledging in the field, and that will show the crowds an example. Good luck.