Today the news are talking about the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and the fears around a potential nuclear disaster in the region, about fighting in Libya between Government and rebels, the UK Foreign Office advising British nationals to leave Bahrain now after the state of alert was established yesterday, one of the biggest paedophile networks having been uncovered in the UK, an woman from Tanzania being obliged to live as a slave in UK for 4 years after a woman from UK promised to pay her 21 pounds per week but then didn’t allow her to leave the house and obliged to sleep on the floor of the kitchen…
With days like this it is hard to find anything that can keep us thinking about anything positive… It is definitely a hard time, hard for so many who have family, friends, affected in any of those situations, people who know others who are affected… we cannot avoid finding ourselves wondering what’s the point of all this… is God trying to tell us something, especially with all the natural disasters?
Among all these sad news at least a couple of things have been positive in the last days. On one side, news from the London Olympics camp, we are now around 500 days away from 2012 Olympics and tickets sales have just been launched yesterday. Another anecdote regarding Olympics related news, I read in the Financial Times that some hotels have already increased their prices almost 300%!
The other positive piece of news is about the Cutty Sark, which was burnt almost completely and was pretty devastated 4 years ago. Prince Philip was visiting the restoration works today in situ at Greenwich, you can check the short report through the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12756046.
So among all this natural disasters, fighting among people, people being mean and abusive towards children, towards other people… I almost feel that the story about the Cutty Sark provides a metaphor and some hope that, although some things may become really devastated, our hopes should not be. Like the Cutty Sark, which has lived more than 4 times what its builders had expected, which has survived storms, corrosion, fire and is now just being restored and transformed so we can still enjoy it and cherish it… something tells me that although it will indeed take time to restore our faith in others, our faith in nature, time after time human beings have demonstrated that we are extremely resilient. It’s still time to deal with the magnitude of the disaster, but once we have done that, we will be ready to restore our human spirit.
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