JUST LIKE JESUS

1. Just like Jesus to be in stuff like this. The situations we avoid
he never seemed to miss:
he touched a leper's wounded skin, he held a dead girl's hand.
While many cursed the darkness he lit candles through the land. Just like Jesus, just like Jesus.

2. Just like Jesus to be in such a scene, no majesty or glory,
it's just dirty, just unclean — like being born in Bethlehem, or raised in Nazareth,
and like a common criminal to die this awful death.
Just like Jesus, just like Jesus.

3. Just like Jesus, the Christians ought to know, wherever there's some trouble
that's where Jesus has to go:
to make the peace, to heal the sick,
to help the blind to see;
and so the poor can hear good news and prisoners can be free.
Just like Jesus, just like Jesus.

4. Just like Jesus to suffer this disgrace; allowing a photographer
to hang him up in space.
It isn't any different than the picture long ago: degraded and dehumanised,
"Presenting: God on show!" Just like Jesus, just like Jesus.

30.9.24
 

Back from a Break 

During September, Dorothy and I travelled
to Norway and the UK.

After long flights
- Adelaide to Melbourne,
Melb to Dubai (14 hrs),
Dubai to Oslo (7 hrs) -
we did Norway in a nutshell
from Oslo to Bergen, then
the Hurtigruten Cruise 
up the west coast of Norway
and back again.
Then an 8 day Trafalgar tour
and 4 days in London,
before taking the direct flight
(16 3/4 hrs)
from Heathrow to Perth.
We're a bit tired (!) but we'll still be a part
of the LWA convention and the 
General Convention .

See some of you there.