TO BE A GREEN TREE AND FRESH FRUIT
10/12/24 07:42
My wife and I were on the Ghan travelling through South Australia and the Northern Territory and it came time to file down the corridor to the dining car. We dined with different people each time, all of them at least in their 70s as were we. Making conversation I ventured, ‘Many of our politicians are characterised by mediocrity, it seems to me.’ This was agreed to with some enthusiasm as it well it could be seeing that that the current art of politics seems to be about appearing to stand for something and nothing so as not to offend anyone.
TIMID THINKING
A writer in The Age observed, “MPs are so mindful of offending or having their words or predictions haunt them, that they have become incapable of communicating with any authenticity.. It’s part of a broader problem, where politicians have become trained not to say anything controversial, qualifying every point and sticking to the safety of engineered answers .. This trend has coincided with a demonisation of political imagination, where candidates and ministers are selected for being a “safe pair of hands” rather than inspiring or interesting” Or worse. Like politicians who say ‘no’ to every suggestion and cling like oysters to things as they are and in particular to what they perceive to be their own entitled interests.
DEPLETED CHRISTIANITY
Not so different to the kind of Christianity that is chained to a discussion of some aspect of the knowledge of good and evil presented sometimes as a conference theme. But why be hobbled to a conversation absorbed in maintaining the status quo – an opiate that keeps people in ignorance of the fact that what we believe as truth, determines whether we are alive or dead in our spirit and soul? We are talking ‘the glass half full syndrome,’ - an excuse for being half alive as a result of a marriage to false doctrine and a false christ.
The foundation of our life in God is the eucharist because this symbolises the living way of life Jesus has given us – Himself incarnated in our being so that He represents us and becomes us.
