Meme?

I was inviting someone to an event with me but, having wished to come previously, on finding out the date they now sent an apology:

Hi John,

. . . Inevitably I am someone else that day and so can’t join you –I’m really sorry about that.

I wonder whether this is something of a standard excuse for us when we meet God.  Sure, my name might be the same on Monday as Sunday; at the business conference as at the Christian conference.  But I'm someone else.

Cats and Dogs

Here's a picture from a Garden Centre we visited recently.  It is so amazingly inappropriate that I had to take to the picture so I could believe what I had seen!

 

I suppose it is, if nothing else, a reminder that we need to look like the message we claim to convey.  Is this really any different to the good old fashioned Church split (you'll know our faith by our fellowship and love but just wait while we have an argument and go off in another direction first).  Is it actually any different to the grim-faced atmosphere that would greet the happy pagan on arrival in church (we're joyful, you know).  Is it really any different to looking at me?