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- Up early; off to NCC, played with Hannah in the creche
for most of the morning instead of Kevin's sermon, fun. Had a
fire-alarm (test) during the service, no-one burned.
- Off into Cambridge to collect James & Kate, back
for chicken dinner, and some interesting discussion on the role
of the state vs. public enterprise, the state's task of
restraining wickedness, vs. ensuring justice, God's regulation of
morally unconscionable things; etc. good stuff. Great to see
them both, albeit for a short time.
- Good to see them both, Mum dropped them back to
Cambridge on her way home.
- Tidied up with J., listened to the ParkStreet Christmas
sermon on
Luke 2:8-20
- Gordon uncomfortable @ the Christmas sermon: expected to
decry the consumerism so rampant at Christmas; even the
The Wall St. Journal's recent suggestion that Christmas should be
split into a religious festival 'Xmass', and a secular occasion
'X-cessmas' where people spend money they do not have to buy
things they do not need.
- Many challenges associated with giving &
receiving gifts; reciprocity - gratitude / equivalence ?
The receiving problem; expressing gratitude for some gifts
a challenge, also discerning any hidden meaning [ the pallette
of deoderant present ? ].
- The gift of Christ: the trivialised pictures of Angels
- cookies, tree-decorations, Hollywood paints them too small.
- The shephards were equivalent of bar-room bouncers;
arms like your thighs, some limp angel choir won't do. Many of
the Bible's angels are massive; they express in their manifestation
some of their invincible power; the 7 thunders; legs like firy pillars,
face like the Sun, legs straddle the sea. Satan is 'only' a fallen
angel. Smart, brilliant, comprehend the ineffable.
- Visiting giant sequoia in a national park; massive
towering evergreens - took loads of photos, drove on, and
then glimpsed even more massive trees. Realised had taken all
the film of the Ponderosa Pine - 200ft; The Sequoia - 300ft,
35ft diameter, God planted the Poderosa so you could appreciate
the Sequoia.
- Simlarly Angels allow us to see the size of God; more
awesome than all who surround him. The shephards presumably
assumed it was the end of time:
- Only 2 Angels destroyed all of Sodom & Gemorah.
All the 1st born in Egypt in a single night. The Angel of the
Lord killing 185k Assyrian attackers in a single night etc.
- But, their message Don't be afraid, good news of
great joy - today .. a Savior has been born to you
what did they go and see ? - 'only' a baby ? perhaps he could
only 'coo' at them.
- Why waste time doing that ? - Christianity not about
some lofty imparted teaching about things we can to do
ingratiate ourselves with God; but instead that God himself has
come down, to live a perfect life of obedience, which God can
impute to us. Jesus - salvation personified.
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- Bed early.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
