On a sadly memorable day in which Russia launched bloodshed upon Europe, it seems appropriate to have a cheerful flag. The flag of Hong Kong.
That is not to suggest that everything in Hong Kong is going well. Those who come to our church from that background would not say so. But the flag at least is a cheerful thing.
In this blog series we have seen often enough that red on a flag usually means bloodshed. It is hard not to imagine some (perhaps many) years hence a Ukrainian flag with red on it somewhere.
Happily the Hong Kong flag's red is the festive celebratory red more familiarly found in Chinese New Year decorations.
Then there is the flower. Astonishingly for such a tiny land area, this is representative of a flower that was actually first discovered in Hong Kong. Nobody looking at the teeming city would imagine it as the place of such a discovery.
Oh for a world that discovers flowers instead of shedding blood.
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