The Best of all is God with us

  Rev. Dr W.G. Wickremasinghe a beloved Principal and a Mentor In January I968, I experienced my first transition of Schools from Richmond College, Galle to a leading Government School in Negombo. Sadly many factors made me and my brother feel that it was not the right school having come out of Richmond, which had very high standards of Education and Discipline. My father in realizing our dissatisfaction decided to look for another school. One afternoon when we returned home from school, our father related to us a meeting he has had in the morning with one of his ministerial Friends, Rev. Dr. W.G. Wickremasinghe.  I still remember the words of my father to my mother -"Willie said bring the boys to Carey". That is the first time I heard of Carey College and  Willie Wickremasinghe, two names I will treasure till I breathe my last. 20th of March marked the 13th anniversary of my beloved Principal's call to his Eternal Home and I am inspired to write this eulogy with thanks...

                                              සභා නායකත්වය සහ පෞද්ගලික න් ‍ යාය පත් ‍ ර       එක්තරා ජාත් ‍ යන්තර සමුළුවක රැස්වීම්   ශාලාවට ඇතුල්වන දොරකඩ මෙවැනි පුවරුවක් විය . " ඔබගේ මමත්වය ඉවත් කර මෙම දොරින් ඇතුල්වන්න ". " මමත්වය ඉවත් කිරීම " යනුවෙන් කුමක් අදහස් වේද ? ඉතාම සරළව පවසන්නේ නම් , " ඔබගේ අහංකාරකම පසෙක ලා එන්න " යන්නය . එය ඉතාමත් අපහසු කාර් ‍ ය්යකි .  මමත්වය යන්නෙහි අර්ථය පිළිඹඳව විවිධ අර්ථකථන ඉදිරිපත් වී තිබුණද , මේරියෑන් ව්ලියම්සන් තම " ප් ‍ රේමය වෙත නැවත හැරීමක් " (A return to Love) යන ග් ‍ රන්ථයෙහි එය මෙසේ අර්ථවත් කරයි . " නළුවකු තම චරිතය රඟපෑමේදී රංගනය සඳහා පමණක් එම චරිතයට අවතීර්ණ වී එය තමන් මත ආරූඪ කර ගන්නා සේ , මමත්වය යනු පුද්ගලයෙකු කාලයක් මුලුල්ලේ ...

  Church Leadership and Hidden Agendas At the entrance to an international summit, these words were displayed "leave your ego at the door”   What is meant by “leave your ego”? A simple understanding of it is to "leave your pride and arrogance at the door.” But there is a lot more to understand why it is so vital to “leave the ego at the door”. We all have to agree to the fact that it is a difficult thing to do. What is the Ego? While there are diverse interpretations on this, Marianne Williamson explains it in her book A Return To Love - “the ego is the false persona we have built up over time to protect ourselves, just like an actor may have taken on a character that they were only meant to play to further their career.”   If we try to let go of this character it will certainly get upset, because if we "leave our ego" we are effectively killing this false character – so it's going to fight for survival. ...