CHRISTIAN COMMENT: Choices made with a helpful guide
When we lived as a family in the Seychelles (yes, honestly – don't go green with envy!) a colleague remarked one day: "England doesn't have a climate.
Just weather. Lots of it."
Well, it's true, isn't it?!
Look at the last few weeks.
You go out in the morning, and you have to be prepared for three entirely different climates before you get home again.
And that's after peeping out of the curtains when you woke up and thinking that the weather was going to be ... whatever ...
Weather. Lots of it.
Sunny enough to eat in the garden?
Yes, but do you want the food blowing off your plate and onto the compost heap?
Cold enough to put the heavy quilt back on the bed?
Yes, but do you want to wake up at 5.30am and find the sun burning its way through the curtains?
Damp enough to put rain-gear on?
Yes, but do you want to end up in a lather inside it because it's so warm?
Well, never mind, folks: however much today's weather drives you mad, tomorrow's will be different!
Fickle stuff, weather.
And so are we too as human beings, a lot of the time.
Can't decide what to do next.
And we are surrounded by the so-called luxury of choice – the only snag being that choosing yet again between two apparently identical tomato packs, after-shave or barbecues just does our heads in, and we wish someone would make the decision for us!!
And there are so many different lifestyles around too, and we feel we have to choose between them.
Single, married, live-in partnership; working, not working (may not be much choice there!); children, no children; ironing or pub; careers, jobs, everyday tasks.
Choice, choice, choice.
How do I make all these choices?
One of the things I appreciate about being a Christian is that I'm not on my own when it comes to making choices.
Some of them are still pretty tough, but even so, I have a guide. Someone who's walked this earth; someone who's seen a lot of what I've seen, and experienced a lot of what I experience – even though we're 2000+ years apart.
Someone who is now willing to continue to walk with me and listen to my cries of despair when yet another choice looms over the horizon, and I don't know which way to go.
It's Jesus.
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Weather for Worthing
Monday 13 February 2012
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: 2 C to 7 C
Wind Speed: 15 mph
Wind direction: North west
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 4 C to 7 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: North
