climate change

We're intrinsically optimistic, I suspect.

Most people probably rarely realise just how serious the situation is. Until, sometimes, it's too late.

Climate change is a good illustration. Don't worry, it'll all be all right in the end.

We were brought up on fairy-tales, films and stories that consistently had happy endings. They all lived happily ever after.

So we got trained to think - it'll all be fine. Just keep reading.

The film Von Ryan's Express knocked that on the head for me.

It was psychologically damaging. Profoundly so.

The hero died at the end (I'm sorry to spoil the movie if you're about to watch it tonight).

The laid back approach of assuming it'll all be fine is not consistently true.

As I say, most folk don't always see the full gravity of a situation.

Climate change is serious stuff. Far more serious than most people seem to realise. If their actions are anything to judge by.

And it has its sombre parallel in another insidious change that's going on. Whose gravity is still not really recognised at all.

The 'climate' of genuine godliness is changing.

And like that other climate change with which we're now familiar, it's been changing for quite a while. Bit by bit. Almost imperceptibly.

Like that other climate change, it has its roots in the thoughtless self-indulgence of a people who've grown fat and too complacent.

Like that other climate change, the changes that will follow in its wake are large and, in the main, inimical to that which is the truest, fullest welfare of the peoples of our world.

And like that other climate change, as I said at the start, most folk haven't a clue as to just how serious things now are.

They think they've got time to sort things out.

We don't. It's as simple as that.

And as serious as that. The rot has already set in.

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It was good to get back to wee church today!

I was back to take the lunchtime service. The story of Joseph again, and the way in which he finally made himself known to his brothers.

As their brother, their saviour and as lord of all.

A timely reminder of how it is that Jesus, too, makes himself known to us.

The children from the choir of the local primary school were in to sing to the folk over lunch.

They were superb. An absolute credit, as always, to their school. And they quite made the day and the week and the month for the folk who were there.

This is what wee church is all about. Jesus with the people, old and young alike.

Making him known. From the Scriptures.

Why should that be jeopardised by all the sort of 'climate change' that big church has been fostering?