Klaus Doring

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Do live for something!

Admittedly this sound a very easy request. Already Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), establisher and founder of the Scottish Free Church, treated that topic with plenty of flowery words. Innumerable human being live, move and have to pass away - free form worries but unknown and unnoticed. Incomprehensible and inscrutable: no line written and no word talk by themselves are still in the memories of their bereaved. Their gleams of light switched out in the darkness of the night… . Why do people like to live like this even knowing they have to leave the platform of their lives on day? Still in my mind is the one question of Brother Francis Castro of the Little Brothers of Jesus about “the burning flame inside him that makes him junp out of the bed … and hurry to work…”.

I observed that many foreigners living in the Philippines got bored and not “knowing what to do”. Of course, it’s easy to get bored while not knowing what to do. How much more, if we are not in our home country anymore!

Open your eyes and ears - and then move! Kindness, hospitality, helpfulness, obligingness, ready to do favors - and your moment of virtue will not be destroyed by time’s storm. Love and mercifulness from the bottom of your heart shared with people who will cross your way (Filipinos and/or your own countrymen) - and nobody will forget you. In our daily life we have plenty of situations where we can show our real calling. Thomas Chalmers describes it as follows:” Good deed aare shining like stars from heaven!” So guys, tried to forget intrigues and all such bad habits. Do live for something. For your beloved fellow creatures and for yourself. Do it now, because time is always limited.

I wish us time. It seems that many people don’t have time. I really wish everyone of us time, but not for haste, hurry and precipitation, but time for contentedness and satisfaction. I wish you time to sort out yourself every day and every single hour to find strength, as I do i.e. while writing. I wish you time to help somebody to solve a problem.

Let’s do live for something, even as a pensioner living in the Philippines… .

Bookmark It