Mother Teresa

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” 

When I read this magical sentence, I could not but admire the profound Wisdom that’s hidden behind that wrinkled face of Mother Teresa. Those were not mere words of advice but practical way to start the World Peace right within the four walls of our homes. She thinks globally but acts locally. Her plans of works of mercy spread worldwide but she starts caring for people right under her roof. It’s the most powerful work strategy Mother used all through her life. She invites all of us to start being humane right from where we are. We don’t need to look for occasions to help but ‘want of our care’ is in need galore. We need to be little more open to our surroundings that can put us right in contact with the people who deserve our kindness.

Her kindness was utterly simple and incredibly powerful in achieving her ends. She said very often in her meetings with Donors and Benefactors that at the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. But we will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.” This is the biblical truth that drove her crazy towards loving the poor and embracing the downtrodden and forsaken, even to the point of shedding her comfort zone away.

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” 

Every child is a gift!

Having one child makes you a parent? Having two makes you a referee?

Is it not the feeling of many today in their homes? Parenting is not a joke and it’s a lifelong commitment as we realize that we don’t deal with data to manipulate but with human lives.

Can you imagine a product with absolutely no customer support service? Can you really trust the product? You would have speculations about what if problems arise, whom would I approach?

So does a child without parental care? What sort of human formation can a child possibly get from its surrounding or will it even survive the surrounding?

I used to think, we have user manuals for almost everything we buy. How about to live this life? Is there a manual? Is there any guidance with regards to how to live life? For every child that is born into this world, parent is the manual or guide or role model for living. What if the manual is no more there? Can you not imagine that person can be completely lost somewhere on the road to life?

To be in our children’s memories tomorrow, we need to be in their lives today. If we fail for some reason, it’s our greatest mistake we could ever make being a parent or the guardians of the children.

Every child is a rough stone that awaits to be chiseled by the Master sculptor. Without the Master sculptor, stone remains useless and without the stone, sculptor is never one.

Every tap on the shoulder

Every word in the ear

Every fatherly, motherly and brothely correction

Every step forward

Every stumble

Every stern look

Every intense gaze

Every tear shed is a chisel on this beautiful  rock becoming a master piece one day.

Children enjoy physical proximity, emotional shelter, psycho social role models, spiritual guide, friend, father and mother and what not in a parent. I just cant imagine how isolated the life of a child could be without a parent.

                 “Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their packages at different times”

Lets wait with hope and trust as Parent, Guardian, Guide, Friend and Companion for them to unwrap and bloom.     

Roots and Wings

Whether we accept or not, the most creative job in the world is to teach. Because we are handling human lives, that can become an asset or curse to our future. If we keep teaching the same things again and again, imagine the world would have been in chaos.

The education of children is the most important task parents, or a nation, have to undertake; on them the future well-being of the world depends.  Through the combined efforts of home, community and school, education has to create men and women capable of doing new things well, not simply repeating what earlier generations have done; but to form people who are insightful, creative, inventive and who accept responsibility for the well-being of others.

Education has always involved giving young people both roots and wings; roots to understand where they have come from, and wings to fly to where they need to go. Without knowing their roots, they can never know their strengths and weaknesses. And knowing their strengths and weaknesses, they can further qualify themselves to be deep rooted in what they think is their future.

I believe all our efforts driven towards such direction of giving roots and wings to our children in the transformative learning culture would definitely make our children to share, to innovate and succeed in life and work.