Ponderings

Started reading Mere Christianity today. Mr Lewis is a very clever man.

Having read the first chapter it got me thinking about the way in which we(I) as a human being treat others. The premise of the first chapter; and forgive my poor attempt at a summary but here goes, was that mankind has an understanding of right and wrong, a morality if you will. And the justification for this premise is the human reaction when an individual is wronged or does something that upsets someone else and they attempt to justify their behaviour. The actions and justifications show that in general people feel there is right and wrong and act upon this.

Reading Facebook today I wondered how the world might be a better place if people thought for a moment about how they treat others and how they would like to be treated and the differences between those two points...

And in diet world... Not going so well. I think I may like chocolate more than I originally thought.

Further thoughts; I miss my wife when she is not around, nothing new there I know. What I have also realised is that I'm a better person when she's around and I eat an awful lot less chocolate!

So Hard and Yet This Is The Aim

I was reminded this week that as a married man my role is to love my wife as Christ loves the church (Ephesians 5:25).

I have a lot to live up to and learn...

A little bit of this and a lil piece of that

Awkward/random conversation in the lift:
Woman - "you're tall... Or maybe I'm short!"
Me - "um yeah..."
Silence...
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Woman - "bye" and gets off at the next floor.

Situation not aided by my ipod and not really knowing what is lift etiquette(sic) in Hayes! Oh well.

Diet update - not going well. Tried to put on some jeans and found they no longer fit. Think the 10 donuts from last week have come back to bite me on the posterior or rather just sit there!

New Definition Of Frustration

So I've decided to transfer my music from small old laptop (SOL) to funky amazing new tool (FANT) VIA my darling wife's external hard drive(DWEHD).

It took 12 hours to move 62gb of music from SOL to DWEHD aka painfully slow! And then it only took 40 mins to transfer the music from DWEHD to FANT!

Frustration!

I confess I am not fully relieved yet though. I next need to tidy up the folders a wee bit on the FANT and then attempt to swap my itunes account over from SOL to FANT and hope that the ipod doesn't then go AWOL!

Phew!

Still can't get over the twelve hours...

While I Wait...

For an Access database to do it's clever thing I thought I'd carry on with my confessional mood of late...

I've eaten a lot of donuts over the last two days - this may have a negative impact on the diet especially as there was no footie on.Tuesday due to the appearance of Switchfoot in SheBu.

Ho hum.

In other news, the milk shortage at work appears to have transferred to the flat, very little left. A trip to Tescos may be called for. Although avoiding donuts may be hard work. Does that count as exercise?

Access has finished it's thing so back to work - ttfn.

Confused As To What Is Racism

So when does a descriptive term become racist? I must confess to being somewhat confused and idly curious as to what is racist and what isn't.

Case in point, someone described someone else as a black wotsit(insert whatever insult you want) and this was deemed racist. However if I am described as a skinny white boy is that racist? Is it only racist if you are being rude or dislike someone? Are there degrees of it? I'm still confused as to why if I say the N word it is racist yet if a rapper from the broncs says the N word it is ok!*

And what is casual racism? For that matter what is institutional racism and how is positive descrimination not racist?

*for the record I don't actually use the N word. It's not nice to call someone a neaderthall ;)

Grace and The Letter Of The Law

So this week saw to my eyes at least a wonderful example of someone in authority showing grace and not applying the strictness of the law.

Billy Sharp has endured what is probably the worst situation in the world; his two day baby died.

Being a professional footballer, he then played for his side Doncaster and scored a quite superb goal. Upon which he 'celebrated' by lifting up his shirt showing a message saying 'that's for you son'.

The referee was well within his rights to book the player for contravening the current laws of the game but instead showed grace, knowing what had happened.

It got me thinking about how legalistic I can be sometimes. How I want everything to be done to the letter of the law. Perhaps I need to be a bit more gracious and let God be the one who makes the final decision as to vengence.