The world is full of many people with
hardened hearts. They are hardened by
the harsh circumstances of their lives.
Their lives have no other outlet for infor-
mation to update themselves and come
out from their negative way of seeing
things. Life must be hard but there is no
way we can curse tomorrow for tomor-
row ushers new hope, new understanding
of things. There is no way man can stag-
nate himself or be trapped by negative
circumstances of his life, an unrealistic
way of looking at the wonderful world
full of people who have made it and who
are making it in life.
How can the hardened circumstances of
our life make us carve out our own world
by not seeing the world as progressive
world full of wonders of God and people
making it in life? The bridges we cross
everyday are they not built by people like
us? The electricity we are enjoying today
is it not the positive thought of a person
like us? Bitter experiences of life should
not make us feel that it is the end of life.
In a country where power is recycled
and money is in the hands of the old and
poverty in the land, justice may not go
around. Justice must spread to avoid peo-
ple asking questions in the midst of the
rich. How do you tell the poor that God is
their Father too?
What about those who have overcome
the circumstances of their life and they are
making it in life? They become captains
of industries, technocrats and they are at
the peak on the ladder of success?How
do they accommodate those who are at
the lower ladder as they are climbing to
be there like them? Is it because they suf-
fered before they achieved such? Why do
they develop hardened heart and prevent
others to be successful like them? There
are many apprentices who worked for
their masters for many years and their
masters did not reward them for work-
ing under them and helping them to start
their own business. Many of them are
stranded looking for compassionate peo-
ple to uplift them. Many of them felt that
their masters have locked their destiny.
Nobody has such power to tamper with
someone’s destiny. Those who do not
believe in God and who do not want to
work hard to overcome the circumstanc-
es of their lives think that someone can
tamper with their destiny. What a trash!
Jesus is calling technocrats, business
magnates, and politicians to shut the
doors of pride, injustice, oppression and
reorganize humanity in justice, harmony
and peace. All the stolen wealth recov-
ered should be redistributed to lessen
the hardship imposed on people by the
economy not moving in proper direction.
Proper governance based on compassion
for all should be strived at. Nepotism and
tribalism should be eliminated to achieve
that oneness. Nigerians should address
the old issues that caused disunity but
are still under the carpet. These issues
are yearning for serious attention. Com-
passionate leadership is needed and not
nepotistic leadership. The church is won-
derful in this area, a sanctuary for all.
All of us must expand the boundary of
compassion in the country, in the states
and local governments in our neighbor-
hoods. In the neighborhood we see many
people wounded by injustice, the persons
denied of their pensions and no means of
livelihood we are to accommodate them.
Not only accommodating them but give
them skills and also know what wound-
ed them in order to help them fight and
defeat the sources of their wounds. Those
in power should know how to build coa-
lition instead of building walls. The judi-
ciary should be the hope of the poor. We
need people who have governed before
to believe that others can do it and even
better than them.
