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Our Neighbour
By peace | August 21, 2007
Who is our neighbour? In English, our neighbour are people who are living near our house. Our neighbours are people who can help us when we are not at home. For example, when family goes for vacations, our neighbours help to water the plants and help to make sure that there are no strangers who will enter our house with force. Our neighbours are the ones who can bring peace and joy to our lives. Imagine you have a neighbour who is selfish, hostile, inconsiderate and not sociable. Imagine this same neighbour does not care about anything around the neighbourhood too. There are such people in my neighbourhood. These people threw litter outside of their windows, cut their dog’s fur in public playground, allow their children to urinate in the corridors and many others. These are pollution to our clean air and pollution to our environment.
Imagine walking around the neighbourhood, and neighbours meet each other, take the same lift, walk the same pathways everyday, and not even a smile or to say “Hi” or “Hello” to each other. This is what some neighbours are in my neighbourhood. A smile, a little greetings of “Hi” and “Hello” can brighten up a person’s day. But not many people are willing to take the first move.
In Christian context, who is our neighbour? Our neighbour is just anybody around us, not only those living near our house. In church, the whole community of people in the church, our neighbours are the brothers, sisters and fathers in the church. In the church, all the people are seen as one community, a whole body. There is no division, no racial discrimination, and people are all regarded as the same level. There is no first or second, but equality. There is no competition, no greed, no selfishness. In the church community, everyone would help each other who is in need. Everyone learn from one another to build a stronger community with greater faith, for unity is power.
Outside the church, everyone around us is still our neighbour. The non-christians, the christians from other church whom we do not know, are all our neighbours as well. When they need help, we extend our help to them, just like The Good Samaritan. That is a good parable to tell us who is our neighbour.
Whether you are Christians or Non-Christians, to have a happy world, a peaceful world and a world that is able to flourish and always functionable, it takes the effort of everyone in this world to treat each other as our own neighbours. Always have empathy and show compassion for people around us.
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