Do you want us to call down fire from heaven?
The disciples asked the Lord
A nuclear strike so long ago
We will – just say the word
But the Lord rebuked their fiery ways
A Samaritan village spared
They went off to another town
Yet their fighting spirit dared
In County Mayo long ago
Another feud set in
A landlord’s bailiff Boycott
Called the troopers in
A harvest for collecting
The locals would not play
They cut him dead
Nothing was said
And Boycott went away
Relationship is what we need
The life-blood of our days
And if we will not play the game
We enter another phase
Have nothing more to do with him
Leave him in his juice
Eventually the world will see
The man is of no use
Brian Fahy
25 April 2022
+ We cannot change Russia. We can only change ourselves. If our ways are less threatening (Nato) that will improve things. Nato looks very threatening to Putin because he has seen all former Soviet satellites join the West. Fear is the ruling emotion in Russia. Fear has been the ruling emotion in the ‘free’ world since 1945. Fear cripples people, and it destroys our ability to live calmly.
If persuasion does not work, then the Lord’s advice is to have nothing more to do with people. Leave them be, to discover for themselves that life without relationship is dead. The people of Ballinrobe followed this advice in 1880 and the land agent Captain Boycott was compelled to leave.
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