The Best of all is God with us

  My wife and I flew out of Sri Lanka in early November 2021 to spend a few days with our family. We are returning in a few days and the news I have gathered during this time makes me realize that we are returning to a country that is drastically different from what it was two and a half months ago. A prorogued Parliament, Gas explosions, power cuts, fuel crisis, unresolved fertilizer crisis, price escalations of essential items and scarceness of milk powder are waiting to welcome us! While we started packing our bags, on the 10th January I received the following from a close friend of mine. "I weep for my country when seeing how people seem to have descended into the abyss of cruelty and callousness....yesterday a heart patient of the Ragama hospital went to a nearby supermarket and for reasons not yet known...had lifted a cake of baby soap and a cologne bottle. He was apprehended by a person on the road who got stabbed by the accused. An armed group of people hammered mercil

  On the 30th of December 2021, the centennial birth anniversary of the late Rev. Somasiri Kumaradas Perera was remembered. As a student and a ministerial colleague of Rev Soma, I am writing this while reminiscing on very happy memories of Rev. Soma and also his beloved wife Aunty Ruvini. The late Rev. Soma and my late father Rev. Theodore hailed from the Charles Place, Rawatawatte, Moratuwa. My father's ancestral home was at Galle Rd. end while Rev. Soma's was at the Lunawa end of Charles Place. Both of them offered to the Methodist Ministry from the Rawatawatte Methodist Church and were close friends. My close acquaintance with Rev. Soma and Aunty Ruvini came on track when I entered Theological College of Lanka, Pilimathalawa in July 1977. Rev. Soma was my Principal for one and a half years of my training until he moved over to Kurana Negombo Circuit at the end of 1978. While doing my registration in his office at TCL he commented on my age 19 + with his unique smile sayi