Another cold day with the high sun blazing down – and one or two showers later. Time will tell whether my lack of head protection will have any consequences.
From Sunday’s Lectionary, in 1 John… “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.” On the whole, great, but not understanding Greek, I don’t know what the second half of the sentence means. Is the writer arguing that because everyone who loves a parent loves their child, we should love Jesus? Yes we should love Jesus – but it’s not true that everyone who loves a parent loves their children! It seems to be going to the right place but by a funny route. It’s like the Pentecost story when the disciples were filled with the Spirit of God … These people are not drunk as you suppose, because it’s only nine o’clock in the morning. Being drunk at nine o’clock in the morning is quite a frequent occurrence in some places I can think of.
Anyway, so is a beautiful but late spring – a frequent occurrence.
Although many ash trees look as though the leaves may never arrive. Although it doesn’t have the same human consequences as COVID, ash dieback is creating it’s own kind of devastation in the landscape.