Another walk

Categories: life-in-general, god-related-stuff

Tags: God 'n' stuff, pictures

Date: 02 April 2010 08:08:23

Yesterday I had another enjoyable walk - this was through the woods above Clermont Ferrand. I didn't see quite so many signs of spring as on Monday, but I did hear a cuckoo. There were lots of other birds too, but I didn't recognise their calls. On Monday I heard a woodpecker drilling, as well as disturbing a flock of bluetits, who chattered in alarm and flitted from bush to bush.

Here are the photos from yesterday's walk:

[caption id="attachment_252" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Here's a view of the city. Oooh, I'm high up!"][/caption]

And here's Puy de Dome again - and yes, there has been snow since Monday's photo was taken.

Here's Puy de Dome again - and yes, there has been snow since Monday's photo was taken.

Now I must go and get myself organised for tonight's Good Friday service - collecting Stuff, making a crown of thorns (but it will probably be made of broom), and printing off the little leaflets for the service. But before I go, here are one or two of the things for meditation that are in the booklet:

Think how easily you can tear bread: think how easily a person’s body can be hurt and broken.

Think how easily wine can be spilled: think how easily a person can be made to bleed.

Think how hard it is to undo the damage.


And...
So many accusing fingers...denouncing, destroying our fellow men... How ready we are to blame others for our own calamities, our failures, our sin... How easily we point the fingers at those who cannot defend themselves...And yet, as we make others suffer, we diminish ourselves. Our threatening hands bind us with new chains...