The Bambi is a non-runner and stands outside our house covered in a green shroud. Thank you very much to Janet’s friends who brought it here on their trailer! Bambi is not done for yet.
Meanwhile the plans for Janet’s walk go ahead. We now have accommodation as far as Bristol.
It’s a good day for being indoors: storm Gareth is doing its thing.
Sunday’s readings:
The key to unlock some of this may be the idea of citizenship … “3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven….” in Philippians.
The promise in the Genesis passage has been used by many peoples to claim the right to lands where other people were already living. (Citizenship becomes greedy, grabbing – one person’s jealous protection of their citizenship leads to another’s statelessness). But Paul turns this on its head in Philippians – our citizenship is in heaven. For me that goes with his new idea of the people of God. It’s hearing and accepting the good news of Jesus Christ that makes you one of the people of God, rather than genetic inheritance. And the territory is the territory of the mind, of the will, of the spirit, rather than earth.
However place is still important. We read in Luke 13 that Jerusalem is to be the stage where Jesus will do what he has to do. But Jerusalem itself is not without sin. Neither is Washington, or Brussels, or London BTW.