The reporter in Madagascar stunned me as he relayed to BBC that the birds had been silent for 2 days: no singing! Why? Cyclone Giovanni was on the way!
The brute animal kingdom has an uncanny ability: sensing the approach of such catastrophes as cyclones and earthquakes, and that well in advance!
I feel I can safely say the end of the world is talked about more often now than ever before! Whether in a soft scientific big freeze/meltdown or in an unimaginable cataclysmic explosion, man has an uneasy and intrinsic sense that the end is surely to come and is even not far.
But I see a difference between man and the birds of Madagascar in that the birds were proactive by keeping inactive and sheltered. But for man, it is still business as usual for many!
If only we could hear the rumble of danger from the incesant economic, political, financial, and social upheavals!
If only man could come to terms with the fact that there is something beyond and outside our human existence that should be the solution to our dire and seemingly hopeless position! If only we could embrace the fact that someday, God will bring to fruition a rescue plan.
And again, I also find an undeniable fact of life: the intrinsic moral compass within man! When I search what this compulsion to do good and shun evil has to do with our existence, I find that religion's suggestion that it for us to prepare for a life after this one is very plausible! Could it be that the Creator has been communicating all along?
Well, friends, I feel everyone of us is duty bound to deepen our search for God! There is something we can tell from the speed of change around us that this world won't last if left to its own devices!
Like the birds, let's seek shelter and let the silence of our honest musings speak to us. The Creator has undoubtedly always reached out to us: what's left is not to ignore but to hear the only alternative there is!May I suggest that a careless disregard may be as perilous as a stray bird in a cyclone!
God bless!
