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Introduction:
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Derek Poole
Comment
Mark Houston
From
the Director
David Porter
Peacemaking
Arthur Chapman
Gentleness:
An attribute of Peace
Graham Cheesman
A
Long Road to Healing
David Porter
All
Taigs are Targets
Neil Smart
God's
Holy Warrior
Alwyn Thomson
Book
Reviews
Alwyn Thomson David Porter
"ALL TAIGS ARE TARGETS"
I came to Belfast
And on the bus I saw graffiti
In the underpass
"All Taigs are Targets"
In brown spray paint.
I did not know
the meaning
Or who had written this
But a Taig must surely be a term
To describe a man,
God's own creation.
Did it matter
As I left
That I'd been afraid to ask.
Not wanting to cause offence
I let the question lie unasked.
Would it have
helped
To understand
To tell the folks back home
Of insults and their derivations
Of man's deep hate of man.
"It does not
matter,
Need not be known
The truth is greater still.
Much greater than the hatred for,
All Taigs are Targets of God's Love"
So said the small calm voice.
During a recent visit to Northern Ireland, Neil Smart wrote this reflection as a response to a hate filled slogan on a Belfast wall. Neil is a vetinarian by profession and a warden in Dibden Anglican Church, Southampton.
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