The love in Zekerullah’s journey to peace ; restoring the truth
November 18, 2009 by
Filed under Journey Updates
Please watch 13 year old Zekerullah explain why ‘there’s no justice or truth in Afg today’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgCXy60yy2U
Zekerullah, a 13 year Afghan youth peace volunteer who is taking part in the peace vigils at Bamiyan Peace Park, is learning to walk that 2nd mile for love.
Love speaks the truth with gentleness, calling corruption corruption, not a budding democracy.
Love will not nurture greed in Afghan robes or international suits.
Love walks 2 hours in the mud to earn a decent penny though it is aware that, by economic design, money and power are not with those who walk.
Love deliberately asks ‘Does Zekerullah deserve a decent livelihood as much as I do?’
Love waits eagerly for peace and justice, even if, by ‘fateful neglect’, it is un-noticed and un-rewarded.
Love knows that killing in whatever name, even in the name of ‘Overseas Contingency Operations’, is killing. Killing removes life and love; we are not able to justify to Zekerullah that killing is a civil response for our ‘contingencies’.
Love recognizes that war is not peace, whatever its prize.
Love empathizes with soldiers and victims who suffer post-traumatic stress, knowing that it is an ORDER of human conscience that can guide Mankind to wholeness, pleading ‘Enough. Please stop!’
Zekerullah making biscuits and cakes
Please speak the truth in love together with Zekerullah, not later but now.
Say it as it is.
This may be a chance for Afghan youth to raise the possibility of love,
for Man to do a little something for other Men,
by standing and waiting firmly for peace before the giants that be.
Killing goes against everything we’re taught from childhood about love and compassion. It goes against every religious doctrine and moral code. It’s small wonder that so many come back from war “sick at heart.”
Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire
