There’s more to it than this

There’s more to it than this

On Good Friday, I received this email – my life could be in for a major change!

Attn:Friend.

How are you?

I am Captain *******, a Briton and a soldier  of the UN troop serving in the third infantry division Unit in Iraq and currently on duty.

I, secretly moved some abandoned cash from a mansion belonging to the former president, Late Saddam Hussein and the total cash US$45,000,000.00 (Forty Five Million United States Dollars),and in clean and crisp $100 dollar bills and the consignment is currently deposited with security Vault company agent.

As I write this letter to you, the box has been successfully moved to a well secured security company out of Iraq for safe keeping and our
attorney will  formalize arrangement of meet you in order to transfer the ownership of the funds to you,once i receive your positive response.

Please keep this business totally secret/confidential. Apart from you and my attorney,nobody should know about it.

He will invite you next week to make arrangement to ship the box to your address in your country.

Please reply immediately through this confidential email i.d ( ****** ) so that I can give you his contact details and more light on the benefit packages for both of us.

Send to me your full name, address, your i.d copy  and telephone number for immediate actions. Contact me as soon as you read this mail.

Yours in service,
Capt.******

______________

That’s rubbish! 

The truth of this day – this GOOD FRIDAY ….. is that God wants us to do better by each other than try to hurt of mislead one another.
Lent Week 1 Tuesday

Lent Week 1 Tuesday

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Today’s Gospel passage centres on the disciples asking Jesus to teach them how to pray.  In response, he gives them the words that we pray so often – the words of the Our Father.

I was reminded of a lovely story I heard many years ago about a school principal and priest, who was giving a talk to the pupils in his school about prayer.  He was a well-liked and respected man, who had a tendency to get side-tracked or confused in his words.  This only endeared him more to all who knew him.

The story goes that he was talking to the pupils about prayer and telling them they should always say their prayers but that the most important prayer they could ever say, would be the “Our Father”.  He explained that these words came from Jesus himself and that, in them, we found everything we needed for our daily life.  He stressed the importance of this prayer and encouraged the students to never ever forget it.  “Whatever prayer you pray”,  he encouraged them “always pray the Our Father.  It’s the best of all prayers and was given to us all by Jesus himself.  So always, always remember the Our Father.  I’ll say it again, it’s the best prayer you could ever say.”

He concluded his talk by saying: “If you kneel down now, we will say three Hail Mary’s for a special intention”!!

I always liked that story.

Pray as you can, don’t try to pray as you cannot.

It was a Snow Day

It was a Snow Day

Okay, I know I should find something else to do but I had been talking with Johnny Duffy about old cars!  I’d mentioned the Peugeot 403 to him and he could not recall it.  He remembered the 404 alright!  I told him that my father had once adapted the boot of Alfie Gallagher’s Peugeot 403 to include a sink with hot and cold running water where Alife, a vet, could wash his hands in a farmyard before getting back into the car.  Johnny reminds me of my father, he’s a sort of inventive character who repairs rather than replaces. I told him that Columbo used to drive a Peugeot 403 in the old TV series of the same name.  Johnny remembered Columbo (Peter Falk) but not the car.  I was even able to tall Johnny where petrol was filled in the 403 – a flap that lifted up on the left-hand back tail light!

The snow came and I was sort of housebound so I did as you can only do at times like that – hit YouTube!  I typed in Columbo and Peugeot 403 and found this clip!

Later I found this one …. it includes the one above but features the car a bit more!!  I love the line where he says his wife has another car but “that’s just for transportation, nothing special”

and later, I found this one – not linked to Columbo’s car but a good walk around an old car!!

And totally separate to all of these, I found myself in Jay Leno’s garage looking at a Citroen DS

And that led to this ….

then this …..

and then, snow or no snow, I knew it was time to go out!!

Reminded of this

Reminded of this

During the week, I had a “touch of flu”!!  I’m trying to make little of it but it was, of course, that awful strain known as the “Man Flu”:)  I was reminded of a video clip I was shown a few years ago and thought I might share it here again.  Just to make people aware really.

Where do you live?

Where do you live?

“Homeless Jesus” – a statue in Glasgow

It was a straightforward question enough.  So too, the answer: “Come and see”.

They did and “spent the rest of that day with him”. No mention of where they went, what they did or who they met. But whatever all that entailed, it took the rest of the day – no, more than that, the rest of their lives.

Do you ever wonder where they went? It’s strange that we’re not told but it seems certain they didn’t go to an address.

This picture above is of a statue of the “Homeless Jesus” and there’s a definite truth in it.  Jesus seeks to make his home among us, in our hearts and lives.  He is certainly found among the homeless and the searching, the poor, those who are lonely or hard-pressed.

I saw him this week in the eyes of a widow coming to terms with the death of her husband and again in the flowing tears of a man whose wife had just died.  Met him in the home of a young couple just weeks into being parents and amazed that love of a child is such an overwhelming feeling. I heard him in choirs singing, musicians playing and men and women of the parish, reading his Word into our hearing.

He lives in our midst.  You’d like to think he’d have brought his disciples to meet us.

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