Tension

This has been a week for visiting the cinema. Without a proper day off I have takent he opportunity to run away whenever I can to watch a film. So I went to see Avatar one afternoon... a bit wow. You will believe there are seven foot high blue people.
I went to see Up in the Air last night for Catherine's birthday... it was brilliant - a picture for our times. It's about a man who's job it is to tell people they are fired. It's also abotu our need to have a home. Go see it!
I am also trying to prepare for Sunday and Candlemas, which marks the fulcrum between Christmas and Easter an our need to keep the two things in tension.
I remembered a poem abotu this and wondered what people thought.
Christmas Is Really For the Children
Christmas is really for the children.
Especially for children who like animals,
stables, stars and babies wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Then there are wise men,
kings in fine robes,
humble shepherds
and a hint of rich perfume.

Easter is not really for the children
unless accompanied by a cream filled egg.
It has whips, blood, nails, a spear
and allegations of body snatching.
It involves politics,
God and the sins of the world.
It is not good for people of a nervous disposition.
They would do better
to think on rabbits, chickens
and the first snowdrop of spring.

Or they'd do better to wait for a re-run of Christmas
without asking too many questions
about what Jesus did when he grew up
or whether there's any connection.


Steve Turner