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But why?....but why not?

Today Sunday 12th July 2009 was characterised by 2 sad news for a number of ZHN members and ex KDZ volunteers:

Tamara Psaila passed away while generously participating in a charity event
Daniela (ex domancic) is sighting for her life in hospital

I for one dont have words.....
i ask why?....and get no answers......
i ask why not.... and the only answers I get are ones full of emotions and subjectivity that evaporate as soon as seen through the mirror of the objective reality we live in!

Yet again its so so precious to see that these events unravel from our depths a sense of brotherhood that has built itself amongst us through the multiple of events we met and shared at least a smile!

prayer is the only thing we can do
prayer is the only vehicle to arrive to HIM who can do
Faith grants us the serenity that what HE will DO will simply be the best to do....even if sometimes his deeds make us ask why?

But than again....why not?

judge not;)

JUDGE NOT.


I was shocked, confused, bewildered
As I entered Heaven's door,
Not by the beauty of it all,
Nor the lights or its decor..

But it was the folks in Heaven
Who made me sputter and gasp--
The thieves, the liars, the sinners,
The alcoholics and the trash.

There stood the kid from seventh grade
Who swiped my lunch money twice.
Next to him was my old neighbor
Who never said anything nice.

Herb, who I always thought
Was rotting away in hell,
Was sitting pretty on cloud nine,
Looking incredibly well.

I nudged Jesus , 'What's the deal?
I would love to hear Your take.
How'd all these sinners get up here?
God must've made a mistake.

'And why's everyone so quiet,
So somber - give me a clue.'
'Hush, child,' He said, 'they're all in shock.
No one thought they'd be seeing you.'

Remember....Just going to church doesn't make you a
Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a mechanic.

Every saint has a PAST....
Every sinner has a FUTURE

Saints are just sinners who fell down....and got up

EU Parliament Elections....and you

Now that the elections are over............
...and results are starting to be published
....take some time to ask yourself.....

DID YOU VOTE?
WHAT INFLUENCED YOUR VOTE...OR THE LACK OF IT?
IS IT RIGHT NOT TO VOTE??....WHY??

HOW DOES OUR MISSION AS CHRISTIANS RELATE TO THE RESPONSABILITY TO VOTE?

your comments awaited!

No one of us is perfect

A hospital chaplain prays with the sick and their families and loved ones as well as with the hospital staff. That’s what the Rev. Margaret Muncie, the only full-time chaplain at Manhattan’s St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, does now.

But in 1996, doctors removed a benign tumor from her brain. The day after the surgery she had a stroke. Today Rev. Muncie walks with a “lurching limp” thanks to a neurostimulator on her right leg. She says her experience informs her ministry, and adds, “Well doesn’t mean perfect. But wholeness and healing can happen, even when there is still brokenness on the outside.”

No one of us is perfect, physically, mentally, spiritually, or emotionally. But we can listen to and pray with and for everyone we know – and those we only hear about.

The Lord... will not let your foot be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber... The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; He will keep your life. (Psalm 121:2,3,6-7)

All I ever needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten

from “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten : Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things” by Robert Fulghum

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand box at nursery school.

These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are food for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why. We are like that.

And then remember that book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and the sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put thing back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

EU Parliament elections & Young People

Note: The following article was submitted by ZHN for the 090509.org in conjunction with the European Parliament Elections in June 2009. ZHN was the sole young people organization to participate to this initiative with UHM a local trade union. The article can be found on www.090509.org. Special Thanks goes to Albert Debono.

Youth

In view of the European parliament elections, young people have been featuring in promotional material, speeches and promises. This is good as it means that the candidates are realizing the great input young people can give towards building a better society.
Also, a good number of candidates can be comfortably qualify with young people themselves, while the young at heart are clearly also aware of the potential of young people! These are all positive factors showing not only that young people are managing to project their potential on society better but also that it is being received and acknowledged.

However, Żgħażagħ Ħaddiema Nsara (ZHN) feels that more needs to be done! On one side we need to sustain what is being done BY young people FOR them and AMONGST them! Unfortunately at a recent seminar a University lecturer speaking of young people and the media mentioned how young people are most often only mentioned in relation to criminal and negative reporting. The exception of sport was mentioned, however too many youth initiatives pass unobserved by the media!

ZHN would like candidates to commit themselves to encourage awareness and coverage of youth initiatives while promoting and supporting even more! Too often it seems like we would rather care than prevent! We believe both are needed but prevention should be given more priority even though results aren't easily reported. Accountability in this regard could arrive in other ways.

On the other hand thousands of young people still seem to be invisible to Malta and the European Community. Why do we still have so many young people who, while having the legal right to be in a workers union, in practice cannot be part of one? This is the reality for too many young people working in unskilled employment, with whom so many of us share the buildings we work in. It is common knowledge, but results haven’t been forthcoming yet!

ZHN would like to see action from our elected candidates, encouraging the EU pressing for, and encouraging governments to take concrete action in this regard, by making it legal to insert clauses in tendering of certain services requiring unskilled/semi skilled workers such as cleaning and security (albeit not only these) to declare the wages they will pay to their workers and see that these are actually adhered to while ensuring that each worker has a clearly explained contract in his possession. Too much of this is still lacking!

ZHN believes that positive change in these issues can only be achieved through the active involvement of young people themselves. Consequently, the movement is committed to serve, educate, and represent the young workers on a national level in Malta but also on within European structures where our international secretariat is present especially through the European Youth Forum (EYF).