“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
h/t www.rejesus.com
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Prayer (I)
PRAYER the Churches banquet, Angels age,
Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth ;
Engine against th’ Almightie, sinner’s towre,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six daies world-transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear ;
Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,
Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,
Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,
The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud,
The land of spices, something understood.
TrackbackSt. Bees Parochial Church Council
Minutes of the meeting held on Monday 9th March 2009 at 7.30pm in New College Hall.
Trackback TrackbackI remember listening to an interview with the Group Chairman of the bank HSBC. As you know HSBC is one of the largest banks in the world, and it is doing far better than many banks at weathering the current financial storm. The Chairman is Stephen Green. He is a Christian and he is also ordained and so he is quite unusual in the world of banking. Some time ago when the financial slump first hit us he was saying what many bankers were reluctant to say then, but are being increasingly forced to admit, that the whole financial sector was being driven by a warped bias towards immediate gain against long term viability or profit.
A friend of mine who used to work in ‘The City’ expressed this basic warped idea with a story about how when he was starting out in the banking sector the company he worked for was expecting a deposit of something like £700,000.00 near the end of a day. Instead they accidentally received a deposit of £1,700,000.00. Knowing that they would have to return the difference the next day a couple of the men got together and put the difference in an overnight investment vehicle that they quickly ‘made’. By the time they had to refund the difference the next morning they had made 1000s of pounds in interest. They all then took the money and went on a big (very big) night out. This left my friend feeling like he had slipped into some kind of alternative universe.
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