Mondays etc

Monday is usually a good day to be off, to recover from Sunday. Having spent some of Friday and most of Saturday at Begbroke and doing the four hour round drip in two days I was suprised how well I felt yesterday. But the gym was hard work yesterday evening and it seems that I just cannot shift the chest infection that I picked up. Anyway enough moaning! The diary for the week proves to have plenty of variety, four funerals, three masses and a cell group meeting in addition to the usual daily round. Yesterday the new head of the Cathedral School Steven Morris was installed during the Cathedral Eucharist. I was struck by the contrast between this occasion and some of the funeral visits I have done in the last week. It was the difference between those who are affluent and have hope in front of them and those who face the devastation of poverty and loss. In the saturday edition of The Guardian there was an article about those left wing writers who have moved considerably to the right. I support change is natural if we are in a period of growth and that as we age our perspective changes. The article is entitled With Friends like these. The conclusions of the article are mixed and link in my opinion the left with secular atheism. The perspective of the Christian socialist is completely ignored but that may be the fault of Christians not having enough influence over politics at the moment!