Advent

Unshakeoffable

Yesterday I spoke about Psalm 139.

Where could I go to escape
from your Spirit
or from your sight?
If I were to climb up
to the highest heavens,
you would be there.
If I were to dig down
to the world of the dead
you would also be there.
Suppose I had wings
like the dawning day
and flew across the ocean.
Even then your powerful arm
would guide and protect me.
Or suppose I said, "I'll hide
in the dark
until night comes
to cover me over."
But you see in the dark
because daylight and dark
are all the same to you.

God is unshakeoffable. On the one hand, in the words of Skevington Wood,

We can never talk about God behind his back.

That includes blogging - he finds the bits Google misses!

Scary? Not really. Only if I make an enemy of potentially my best friend imaginable,

Card

Today the first Christmas Card arrived! All the way from . . . .

. . . the Royal Mail.

We are blessed by many cards usually. I like to look at cards for at least one interesting or ridiculous thing and the Royal Mail card does not disappoint.

It has 'Merry Christmas' on it! This is something of a welcome surprise given the secularisation of such things. This is devalued upon opening it and realising that it is the announcement of Christmas postal arrangements dressed up in the form of a card.

It also has, on this symbol on,

Which is very confusing indeed. After all, if I recycle it now I will not have the card in Advent, let alone at Christmas. And if I recycle it now I will also lose all the information which it has been sent to convey.

This card is already a front-runner for my 'Most Contradictory Card Award 2009'

Coliseum

It seems just a little ironic that this stunning and acclaimed performance of a Christian hymn takes place in an arena in Pula that once hosted the slaying of Christian martyrs by Roman emperors.