Our thoughts, words and actions reflect the condition of our mind

Sep 28, 2020 Features / Columnists, Letters

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DEAR EDITOR,
I know the answer to our country’s racial problem and this simple solution that I will present will only serve as a reminder to what we already know but choose to ignore.
I spent my early years growing up at Perth Village, Mahaicony where I was involved in rice, coconut and smaller crops, but regardless of the crop I was compelled to embrace a protective policy or programme starting at germination of the seed to harvesting the crop.
This programme provided resistance against threats to plant life that could deprive me of reaping a good harvest.
Now I am involved in engineering for over 45 years and have presented a successful protective maintenance programme to my customers.
I don’t want to use this platform for marketing purpose but seek your kind permission to provide a very simple example that protects engine and equipment against costly downtime and delivers maximum production resulting in increased revenue.
The food for diesel engine is diesel fuel and dirty diesel which is equivalent to unhealthy food is a serious problem in Guyana resulting in poor engine performance and costly repairs and a protective programme to remove dirt and water from diesel fuel starting from the storage tank to the time it enters the fuel pump to be converted into energy is necessary for good engine performance.
We are the highest form of creation endowed with amazing knowledge and the ability to think, reason, discover, experiment, manufacture, harness water, wind, sun and steam to convert into energy and the list gets longer daily.
With this amazing knowledge we successfully design and implement protective programme for plant, engine and mechanical life and ignore our greatest asset which is human life. This letter is not intended to condemn anyone but to expose our neglect and present a solution to correct our racial problem and in this respect I will like to invite you to follow the news and you will discover that our priority is oil and gas and digging deep into the lives of others to discover their faults and take pleasure and great delight in exposing and condemning them.
Without missing a breath or heart beat we play “follow the leader” game and buy into slaughtering one another with our viper instinct that leads to further division and destruction.
We are a blessed country with great resources and wonderful people and as humans we have the ability to love, but sadly we have chosen
racial prejudice knowing that it will lead into further destruction. I cannot comprehend why the highest form of God’s creation design and implement preventative protective programmes for plant and engine life but refuse to embrace known solutions to rid our country from this racial monster?
In fact, it seems as if we choose to resist the solution although we know that we are destroying our nation.
Fellow Guyanese, I pray that we will wake up and accept that we have all contributed to racial division and I am going to be blunt knowing that I will offend many but I am compelled to expose our animalistic behaviour and condition of our heart. Our leaders knowingly feed us junk which is quickly placed on Facebook for mass circulation and sadly we take the bait, receive filth with joy, compliment the messenger and Indo and Afro Guyanese share the message within their group to continue to attack one another and then the messenger hypocritically and shamelessly steps in and condemns our behaviour.
Now that we have done the post mortem and know that we have a heart problem and unless and until we accept the truth, repent and confess our sins and reject our behaviour, we will reap the fruits from the seeds that we have sown as we continue the journey into further self-destruction
I want to present a preventative solution that is guaranteed to work and this can be summed up in the heavenly word that is called “love” No one destroys what he loves but rather cherishes and protects it.
The bible tells us that if we have everything that this world offers and lack love, we are nothing and let it be known that when God created us we were created as humans with the greatest worth and value. The wise king Solomon says, “This is what I have observed, God has made mankind upright but man has gone in search of many schemes.
Our thoughts, words and actions reflect the condition of our mind. Please stop the blame game.
We are all guilty of contributing to this racial epidemic. Jesus said, “you hypocrite, why are you looking to see a speck in your brother’s eye when you have a beam in your own? Let each one of us commit to refraining from repeating the past, reject those who try to influence us and in the name of God’s love commit to change and let it start with me.
I am requesting our Government to please pause on prioritizing wealth and put their attention on us “our country’s greatest asset” and seriously search for a few brave Guyanese with excellent resume not influenced by the lust for fame or money, no trace of prejudice or history of affiliation to political party but love Guyana and are passionate about working feverishly towards correcting our racial prejudice and we will happily commit to work with and support this group.
Harold Beharry

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