So stop asking whether or not anyone wants it or needs it, and simply do it because you were made to do it, because it makes you fully alive to do it, because you are working out what God has already worked in, because it matters, because you are called to the
ministry of reconciliation, because the seeds might just catch and someday, perhaps, you'll
sit by the banks of river
under the spreading branches of a tree of righteousness.
Meanwhile at the party headquarters of the far right Laos party,
sitting under paintings of classical Greek scenes, vice-president Georgios Georgiou explains why they left the current governing coalition (formed
under Lucas Papademos last November when the Papandreou government collapsed): «I suggested we leave the coalition... we said not to touch pensions and wages and to get rid of the two million illegal immigrants... you can not have Germans coming in
sitting in
ministries ordering ministers what to do.»