Woman's Job

Woeman, more apt as we pick up the mess left by men, is best exemplified by VP Leni who is faced with, but not fazed by accepting DU30's offer to co-chair ICAD. 

Traffic

It's global. Not only on the road, but involving human beings.  This woman in the Middle East paid a trafficker for fake documents to work in Spain as a farmhand.

She even made her hands rough to prove she was used to work the soil. But the recruiters checked her feet, which were trimmed and polished! Denied

Brothers

CinemaWorld's Lovely Louise was about a Greta Garbo-wannabee who left Hollywood and Bill, her son by a director and went back to another son Andre in Switzerland. Bill reunites with them, only to try and get some money. Reminiscent of Esau and Jacob!

Waiting

Zechariah and Elizabeth waiting for decades till God granted them a son. Sometimes, looking forward to a court decision is like that, with unpredictable results at that.

Second Opinion

Just as we seek another medical advice after seeing our first physician, mediation can be considered after consulting our lawyer.

Joy and Justice

Psalm 67 says they go together. Like after a successful mediation.

Details

Not only the devil is into it. Mediation requires accurate and exact conditions in the resulting Compromise Agreement- when, where, what time will payments be made by whom, to whom. Like Harry Potter's address of Cupboard under the Stairs of his uncle's home.

Tiny House, Big Living

In one of its eisode, they converted a schoolbus into a house extention on their lawn.

Mediation handles cases of big house, tiny living.

False Pretenses

Caught this European film on CinemaWorld. A female magazine researcher fell overboard a freight ship and was saved by a smuggler's boat.  Soon pirates overtook them and to protect the researcher, the smuggler claimed she was his wife. The pirate believed him and asked, "Why don't you buy her some clothes!"

Not so easy to get away from those alibis in mediation.

Divine Mediator

Our Daily Bread had this insightful reflection today.

"The One who had exhorted the crowds to 'Listen!' earlier in the day, uttered a simple, powerful command to the winds of nature- 'Quiet! Be still!'"

The first exhortation is used in mediation, and the second, when things gets rowdy, although these reminders are both given during the orientation at the start of the initial session.