IN SEARCH OF LOVE

Where is the humanity in man?

Where is the conscience of value for lives?

Why do people allow hates in their hearts?

So much that they are not only willing to take lives of others

But are also ready to die doing it

You hate a government’s action

So you unleash terror on her people

You hate a religion

And you take lives of its believers

You believe your opinion is right

So you kill all who doesn’t share same view

Displeasure at a system, a belief, an action or a deed

Need not generate in you

Such hate that makes you lose your humanity

And love for your neighbours and country

Where is the love that you were born with

Before you were taught differently?

As the world is moved by the attacks in Paris

It is an awful reminder to all of us that this world needs prayer

So as we pray for Paris and the families of those affected

Let not forget to pray for Lebanon, Nigeria, Iraq, and Thailand

And let send our comfort to those visited with terror

In the rest of the 26 Nations of the world

Facing terrorist attack in the past five months

So to those feeling the hit of all these attacks

I mean the family and the love ones of those

Whose lives are claimed in this terror

May God comfort and console you

May He ease your pain where it hurts most deeply

                                                                                

And let us remember that you can not

Drive out violence with violence

Nor drive out hate with hate

“The ultimate weakness of violence is

That it is a descending spiral,

Begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Through violence you may murder the liar,

But you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.

Through violence you may murder the hater,

But you do not murder hate.

In fact, violence merely increases hate.

So it goes.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,

Adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness:

Only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate

Only love can do that.” are the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

So in this hard time facing the world

We all need each other to live.

Peace to the world.

Selah.

Wale Oyebade

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