Stop: Learn from Parables

                    "Hurry! " " Grasp & Run" , " Use & Throw" these are few of the mechanical soundings seems that go to make like stressful and prevent modern man and women from exploring their full potential and thus living comfortably.
                  Here, I am not looking into the cause of these shadows, though that would be useful. I will just try to offer a therapy so that all may enjoy serenity, calmness and health, both physical and psychic.
                   Every area of our life calls for a varied degree of self control, of which, ofcourse, we are not much concerned really. For we fall to recognize the need to slow down, take it easy, reflect and control our emotions and our moods. Lack of self control is the root of our problems.


A 'Step' is a must.


To Stop is the first need so as to:


* Discover self knowledge and self reliance. " No man has any conscience except the man who      
    pauses to reflect"
   (Johann Von Goethe ).
* Discover wounder, inwardness, spontaneity;
* Have a break;
* Realize the sense of time and refresh your life;
* Keep yourself going;
* Keep your energies alive;


To start is the next need so as to:


* Be in touch with people;
* Be in touch with nature;
* Relenish your spirit with a prayer;


Reflection is both a stopping and starting point.

Let us therefore stop and start a life which as the John the evangelist stated when he set about to write the story of Jesus " I write about Jesus like from the very beginning: what i have heard , what i have seen with my eyes and what my hands felt when this life was intelligible, visible and experienced, so I write of it".




-  Fr Jacob George