Taking sides

During the PAR training programme, an interesting question that plagued my mind, as it did some others too, is this:

If we are to take sides with the weakest and be biased about our whole attitude (if not of our procedure), then there may come a point wherein the group which we have been standing for, becomes one of the groups on the forefront and another is now the last.  What then? 

Another form of asking the same question would be

Why not be impartial and strive for equal growth, especially of the marginalized?  Why should we take sides at all?  

Prof. Manti was clear and direct in his answer: The moment we see that there is someone who is marginalised we take his/her side! That's it... that's what PAR is all about.  To talk of equality for all, at all times is living in an utopia.

God and me, partners

2 Sm 7: 4-17/ Ps 89: 4-5. 27-28. 29-30/ Mk 4: 1-20

And those who received the seed in rich soil; they heard the word and accept it and yield a harvest, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold (Mk 4: 20)

A certain farmer, by his hard work, transformed a section of barren and rocky ground into a beautiful garden. Where once wild bushes grew, there was now a variety of flowers, fragrance and fruits. The pastor of the farmer, while visiting his lovely garden remarked, “What a remarkable feat you and the Almighty God have accomplished!” “Yes,” replied the farmer, “but you should have seen it when God was doing it alone!” God does not work alone. He always works in partnership.

I have made a covenant with my chosen one (Ps 89: 28)