PAASLOG: EEN NIEUW BEGIN

EASTERLOG: A NEW BEGIN

I didn't have to think long about the date of my last weeklog: it had to be Easter Sunday. Not only because the SP has always allowed me to write a purely personal blog twice a year, at Christmas and Easter, where the inspiration that I get from faith was allowed to resound. But certainly also because Easter is the ultimate celebration, which is also a new beginning.

In this month's Tribune, Jobien van de Rijt-van Keulen is speaking in the Left Front section, SP member since 2013 and she said it very nicely: "I live from the basic principle: for each other, for each other, with each other. I recognize that social both in my faith and in the SP ". It is the same for me: through the progressive movements in Christianity I became a socialist, and as an SP man I want to focus not only on the vertical axis of the cross, the worship of God, but also on the horizontal , the conscious life for, by and with others. And struggle together to tackle the negative forces in society, the ikke-ikke-ikke and the holy belief in the "market".

An organization wherever this comes together is the Salvation Army. I am mainly involved as a donor, but in addition to the work for the SP that will continue to come my way in the future, I think it would be wonderful to have time to actively start volunteering, for example. for an organization like the Salvation Army. It is nice to build a different world from far Brussels, it is just as nice to help people in concrete terms through local SP campaigns, but also through other voluntary work.

Through the Salvation Army, I also received the announcement that you could go to the Passion in Concert with a discount (yes, I will remain economical). And so I was in Ahoy yesterday, together with partner Kees, for an overwhelming evening. How well everything came together was clear from the opening and closing number: The World is Van Everyone. We have often sung it at SP meetings, together with the late Thé Lau. Because that's how it is: the world belongs to everyone, everyone belongs to the world. And that is why I will soon have to leave part of that world in July, and in particular the indestructible and always inspiring and challenging SP-Brussels team, but the world is bigger than Brussels. And there will be many new, beautiful encounters in and around Rotterdam. Think of it as a small resurrection, thanks to all the SP people who have made so special in recent years and who I hope to continue to see in the future.

I wish all readers a wonderful Easter celebration and their own little resurrection.

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