Cooperation

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

Edmund Burke

Working in a pleasant environment is such great fun, where everyone pulls his or her weight. Everything gets done on time and all are happy to lend a helping hand where necessary. I remember fondly our community standing together during the illness of a boy who had cancer and a young girl who needed treatment for a terminal illness. What a beautiful sight it was to behold.

There is in all of us good. The Bible says that no man will give his son a stone when he asks for bread or a snake when he asks for a fish. God didn’t make evil in us. He made only goodness. It’s the tapping into that kindness that makes us human.

Martin Luther King said: “We must learn to live together like brothers or perish together as fools”. We have hung together thus far. My wish is that we hang together on all things. That would make our communities as strong and wonderful as it really is.

We have gone through some bad times, plagued by horror, terrible things happening. Yet we are able, through God’s grace and working together, to conquer even that.

Care for your neighbour and surroundings. In the famous words of Alexander Dumas; “All for one, one for all”.