P C THOMAS
As the novel COVID-19
has given new understanding for self-sacrifice this year 2020, whole human race
has taken positively to challenge combating the virus threat by lockdown
including all religious rituals irrespective all communities. Public worship
hitherto common has been reduced to personal observation. The most important
Christian celebration of Holy week rituals – the Palm Sunday, Good Friday and
Easter services – are cancelled so that the worshippers should not be exposed
to this deadly virus. All places where the public assemble, state and country borders
and even personal closeness have been made either naught or minimal to the
core.
Why do these miseries happen?
As common believers, we are going through a time when many doubts haunt in the
minds of all of us.
During the start of
lockdown period I came across a message through social media, the essence of
which is given below:
There is a drama titled
‘The Last War’ written by the famous British writer Neil Grant in 1935. In this
script, it was portrayed that there was a high battle grown among the counties
of the world, using scientific weapons filled with viruses, causing total death
of people, throughout the earth.
Following the war, the
entire mankind has been wiped from the world and finally, somehow, a group of
animal including dog, horse, monkey, lion, snake etc, who survived, held a
conference to assess the situation of the losing of mankind, where each animal started
blaming human for the disaster. Every animal but dog was happy that human perished.
Horse had foreseen the precarious situation as he was the constant companion of
soldiers so do with all the animals had their opinions.
As the animal group
continues to engage in such discussions, the real hero VIRUS who vanished the
entire humanity come in the midst of discussion in the form of a big bug and
added his report – he said, “despite knowing how dangerous I am, it was the
scientists who have brought me up in the laboratories to develop me as a big
weapon to use against his enemies.
The appearance of an
angel changed the whole scenario, who cleared the discussion by unequivocally
proving that the destruction has been the by-product or result of human
selfishness and pride.
At the end of the
discussion, somehow a single man who escaped from the virus attack comes in to
the final scene. Then all the animals tried to attack him, the angel helps him
and saves his life. However, the man
determined himself that it is pointless to live alone in the world and felt it
is better commit suicide. He recognized his wrongdoing and apologizes to other
creatures for all the offence he has done to the universe. Then the angel protects
and saves his life by taking him away from the animals – the curtain falls, the
drama ended here.
This play gives much
thought during the Corona Virus period. Even though everything that has
happened in the world and what is happening now is according to God's plan, God
is still able to care for the people of God who pray. Suffering is not caused
by God. Since all miseries are the manifestation of divine plans, there is only
one thing we can do – pray to the God as His plan is unknown. Let God save and
take into life. All suffering have an end, after the Good Friday (suffering),
there will be Easter the resurrection for hope.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow, God Bless the
World.
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