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Guidance

Posted on by Olaf

Suppose in stepping on to this beach, you are given two choices.  Stay put to enjoy the scene or choose a boat and head off into the water?  In this metaphor for guidance, if you get into a boat you then have further issues to resolve: which boat, where is the destination, how to get there, what supplies are needed and who to take with you (if anyone)? Your life will have been like this multiple times for big and small things.  Sometimes you have a period of stability but other times, there is a need for a succession of choices as one thing leads to another.  The story is told of a ship’s Captain who looked into the dark night and saw a light in the distance. Met by repeated refusals to alter course and give way, the impatient Captain sends a final signal: ‘Alter your course ten degrees south. I am a battleship.’ The reply was, ‘Alter your course ten degrees north. I am a lighthouse!’  Oh that it was always so easy to make a wise choice!

whose CROSS?

Posted on by Olaf

‘Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see’ – Martin Luther King Jr

Just as for Jerusalem, everyone wants a piece of the cross, laying a claim to it.  So far as the cross goes, here are some of the claims to consider:

  • The Jewish Authorities – without them (the High Priest, the Teachers of the Law, the Pharisees), who would have taken such offence to a person loved by the people as he healed them and taught them? Yet they needed to get someone else to kill him as a ‘cursed convict’ on a cross, so the Roman Empire was convenient.