Brief talking points of Dr KM George former UN Advisor
Date 15th June 2017.
Hon Metropolitans, Rev Sisters, Rev Fathers, Friends and the bereaved family,
At the very outset let me recall a verse of St Paul, “ I have fought good fight; finished the race and kept the faith. Finally waiting for the crown of righteousness “.
As a true believer in God this is very appropriate for this departed soul as well , as St Paul says.
On a personal note, I was five and my only brother who was three, when we lost our father to a cobra bite in the early 1950s.As young orphans, this departed great soul despite being not much educated and not very well off, had given us his lavish care and concern as a neighbour. He hardly knew any limitations in lavishing his love to the orphans an the fatherless kids around.
Once he did ask me if I knew the phone number of God. I was totally confused. That was the time even we did not even get to see a telephone in our own village or nearby towns in the 1950s. But we had seen the pictures of phones.
He went on explaining the direct phone number of God with the following alphabets and numerical. It was something like this…Jer: 33.3. I went home to refer the bible which he said is from the book of Jeremiah chapter 33 verse 3. It reads like this, “ call unto me, I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you do not know or even dreamt”.
Form an ordinary village man of low education levels, it was a great lesson to me.
During many of my trials and tribulations in life, this phone number was very handy to save me even from the face of death, when I was working in PNG and Afghanistan. Even today that mobile number of God is close to my heart.
The departed soul was the father of his eight children including Metropolitian Dr. Kuriakose Theopheliose who is an asset to the church in India and the world at large. He is the promise of the future from the international perspective of wolrd peace dialogue in the changing times.
The prayer life, the simple living and high thinking of this ordinary villager must be a great motivating force for his children and grand children as well as very many others who want to take up the challenges of life to be empowered by possibility thinking.
Thank you—thank– you. … Thank you