argg... it's been a while .... and a very sad return with news of somebody passing... it's not fair... when folks stride out into a role that has far reaching touch if the plug is pulled suddenly some life glue has vanished.... and a lot of people are left with a sense of disaster... what has happened .. it's not fair... it's not fair to not know for example how one is ..
it seems trivial but yesterday some conversations all about bereivement.... it had just been announced that a very generous hosting was about to end quite suddenly we were affected and in a private moment with someone quite tearful i ventured that things end for better Blessings... i sounded quite confident had i not been paying attention?
as .... someone introduces someone as cousin and friend friend for always... surely that should have been cousin for always ... well some cousins were only met every 3 years at funerals where one asked how they were and then well ... one didn't know one's cousins at all really .....
could one not know one's cousins as cousins... some families have an awful lot of cousins ... i was amazed at someone saying they had 30 cousins that they had grown up with in the same neighbourhood... what all with birthdays and birthday presents and parties and things? that seemed an awful lot add in friends and... i baulked a little as i kindov felt this was like what the poor families were a bit like... not everyone but ... well kids failed relationships more kids more failed relationships and so on... way of life or happening of life? and before you know it you have 30 cousins to buy birthday presents and christmas presents for .... how does that work for the poor? do they stop having so many parties or presents.... i mean... what sort of presents could one be resourceful with that can get folks out of the poverty trap... i mean when one has little to spend one has to spend something don't you and does it all get lost someplace? gifts should be meaningful lifechanging surely?... and in truth this can happen on a small frame... but hey we being given stuff to we get no choice.... you have what you have been given and nothing more and nothing less... it's what you've been given ... oh how i resented that some folks seemed to be able to be smug all the time... and how curious i was about some folks who had apparently nothing!?... i kindof love something weird happened to me at some point and totally without planning .... the resentment of the rich on the basis of hey why not me turned to you know what why would i want stuff where i get to swank past others.. and there ain't a thing they can do about it! somehow it doesn't matter how hard the swankers work at it ... what sort of reward was that? some people love the idea of rich christians... recently someone told of how they had visited a rich christian and found them very humble and that had changed their view of being rich and christian... it did not fall well with me at all... the thing is what do rich christians actually do?
back at conversations what makes you happy money doesn't make you happy... not having enough of what you really needs makes you ill or makes you pretty fragile ... but is it about money? something sticks in my mind of recent storytelling exposure... if you are rich you can afford to have ideals if you are poor you play to different ball game rules... it is from a rich place that one can do the sharing.... well we had 'social changes' following the second world war... hardly a rich time ... but a time for investment in principles that had ongoing effects.... that now... well it's the rich kids run the street gangs and who do the street kids look out for? .....that there is something terribly disturbing about this... it's about survival.... but we can make a choice about looking out for folks beyond ourselves and some do and Roger in his way and in his scope was good at this
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GOD BLESS!
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