Thought for the Day – Friday 15th May
Friday today, so a much lighter-hearted reading and of course your ‘Friday
Fun Questions’ to ponder. Thought I would share some verses from Proverbs today
– all really saying the same thing!
‘Better to live on a corner of
the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.’ (Proverbs 21: 9)
‘Better to live in a desert than
with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.’ (Proverbs 21: 19)
‘A quarrelsome wife is like the
dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm; restraining her is like
restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.’ (Proverbs 27: 15-16)
Of course, as proverbs, I am sure that the word ‘wife’ could well be
replaced in these ones by the word husband, son, daughter etc. etc. and still
make a wise saying!
It seems to me that people mostly complain about their relatives
nagging or being quarrelsome with them when it comes down to getting things
done as and when they want them done! Usually it is all those little DIY
projects or housekeeping things that pile up and which we all procrastinate
about doing a) because we don’t really want to do them or b) because we say we
have no time to do them!
As I have been sharing time with you all through my Pastoral phone
calls each day it appears to me that there has been a lot of DIY, housekeeping
chores, Spring Cleaning, decluttering and all sorts of administration getting
done in Holytown, New Stevenston, Newarthill, Carfin, Motherwell and beyond just
to pass the time – with the ‘to-do lists’ all but non-existent!
How calm and serene our homes must be then! No nagging going on! No
quarrels developing over tasks undone! No-one moving out to live on the roof or
in the desert!
Seriously though, we are all finding ‘Lockdown’ a different way of
living, a way of living where we have to be in such close proximity to each
other for long periods of time, with no one visiting to break up our days, and
I suppose this is the very time when nagging and quarrelling could develop
quite easily over the smallest of things.
Jack Nicholson in the film ‘Mars Attack’ where the earth is being
attacked by Martians says this, ‘Why can’t we all just get along?’
So, let us all make a concerted effort to ‘just get along’ in this time
of Lockdown for our own sakes, for the sake of those who live with us and for
the sake of our roofs and our deserts!
A Prayer before Silence from Christian Aid
Loving God,
We seek your presence in the silence beyond words looking to you for
comfort, strength, protection and reassurance breathing with gratitude, holding
on to hope, trusting with faith, that you are still God in the midst of the
turmoil and that your love reaches to the ends of the earth. Be present with us
now. (Silence) Amen
Friday Fun Time:
Here are your five questions for today all about ice-cream!
1. Ice-cream is for hot weather only – what say you?
2. What is your favourite ice-cream flavour?
3. Cone, tub, wafer, nougat wafer or double nougat wafer – what would
your choice be?
4. What is your favourite childhood memory of ice-cream?
5. Banana split - comments?
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