Another Prayer for the Day from Radio 4 ... tommorow its John Calvin's Birthday ....
so it'll be less tomatoes and more TULIPs!
This year I’ve changed where I grow tomatoes. For two summers now, my crop has failed and a friend who knows about such things advised I make the move. She quoted Albert Einstein’s famous line that it is simply madness to keep doing the same thing, and expect different results.
Perhaps Einstein deserved another Nobel prize, this time for stating the obvious, but it’s amazing how even after personal crisis or international disaster we do return to the same old things, but expecting that somehow, life will change. So often we see catastrophes that result from the changes we have made to the global climate, but we seem incapable of doing what is necessary to avert calamity. The world goes into financial turmoil, but we carry on with economics that have seen wealth and opportunity being taken from the poorest people of the planet.
Most of us are aware of the need for a healthy diet and an exercise regime, but even after warning bells, or a shock to our system, too often our lifestyles settle back to the way they were before.
But we are not destined to this madness of mistaken repetition. The prophets told the people that God would do a new thing for them, finding fresh streams in the waste places of their lives.
When it eventually happened it was not so much a thing as a new person, one who lived in ways that ran counter to so much the world had ever known. Jesus was so different that they killed him for it, but some folks say he’s still doing new things in the lives of people who will dare to pray for change.
Lord in whom all things are possible
Lead us into patterns of life
Perhaps Einstein deserved another Nobel prize, this time for stating the obvious, but it’s amazing how even after personal crisis or international disaster we do return to the same old things, but expecting that somehow, life will change. So often we see catastrophes that result from the changes we have made to the global climate, but we seem incapable of doing what is necessary to avert calamity. The world goes into financial turmoil, but we carry on with economics that have seen wealth and opportunity being taken from the poorest people of the planet.
Most of us are aware of the need for a healthy diet and an exercise regime, but even after warning bells, or a shock to our system, too often our lifestyles settle back to the way they were before.
But we are not destined to this madness of mistaken repetition. The prophets told the people that God would do a new thing for them, finding fresh streams in the waste places of their lives.
When it eventually happened it was not so much a thing as a new person, one who lived in ways that ran counter to so much the world had ever known. Jesus was so different that they killed him for it, but some folks say he’s still doing new things in the lives of people who will dare to pray for change.
Lord in whom all things are possible
Lead us into patterns of life
That will bring good news
and lasting change to our world
Amen
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