unsafe

There's an unease in our area today. The shop-keeper two doors away from us was murdered. Posters of his death is stuck all around our quarter. It feels unsafe to walk around here now.

But that's not all. Two elderly shop-keepers near the 6th Station of the Cross were murdered several months back. Whatever is happening around here? Only yesterday I spoke about peace among the Jews and Arabs, but today I experience so much violence from among the arabs themselves.

Yesterday night we caught several youths doing drugs at the back of our place. They cut through the fence and have apparently been around for some time already - because there were mattresses for sleeping, a broken couch and lots of other stuff. We welded the fence back this morning. But you know what? It doesn't feel safe. But the ten of us left here have a more important mission now - to be instruments of peace.

Mother Teresa said: "Allow God to use you without consulting you."