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World Humanitarian Day
“During a solemn ceremony to mark World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations paid homage to the thousands of humanitarian workers who risk their lives every day to ease the suffering of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people.
The commemoration began with a flower and wreath laying ceremony to honour those who have fallen in the line of duty and to lend support to the survivors and families of the victims who continue to mourn their loss.
The U.N. General Assembly designated August 19 World Humanitarian Day in 2008 to commemorate the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. Among the 22 aid workers killed that day was U.N. mission chief Sergio Vieira di Mello.”[i]
On the surface we do not realise the depth some people go to, to helping others and how we can all improve on our stop to wrath, and increase our learning knowledge, and teaching power, to help someone else. God bless the U.N.
The surface is to touch, to feel, to hold, the outline of a thousand ways of making. But the suffering of ourselves, humanity, even if we have it all, cannot be denied, so, we must accept sorrow with happiness over years of history forming within us. So, is the surface true?
We are Christ’s and so we must not be upheld by outward appearance, for beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not skin deep. This includes compassion for our own feelings of fitting.
God saw the World as an ornament.
The Church, the equivalent to Jesus’ agency to God – the maker.
Saint Lawrence Church Winchester, looking East.
Peter asks wives to be submissive to their husbands, the weaker. But do not just adorn with gold – “4. Rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit.
We do not know what are behind those images, of personality until we have had a conversation, and yet words can be meaningless, but holding hands.
And we do not know what are behind those mediaeval walls until restoration occurs. The people living above the animals, and the monks underground in the crypt as the barn incurred the first form of the pitched roof suburban house. The animal’s downstairs, and bedtime upstairs, within tradition.
Wood panelling, Winchester Bakery, Winchester.
Plaster and Stucco, depicting painting of structural form, above fireplace, Winchester Bakery, Winchester.
So, what does the surface hide?
In fact, it reveals something of the true nature of those behind it.
Thank-you.
God bless you.
Love, AB, x.
[i] Schlein, Lisa, VOA, World Humanitarian Day, August 19th, 2022, available at: World Humanitarian Day Pays Tribute to Aid Workers Who Risk Their Lives to Save Others (voanews.com)
