My mind’s a bit scrambled…
It started with a discussion with granddaughter-Hannah. As part of her pre-university work she’s writing book reviews on several children’s books. She explained… she’d chosen ‘The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig’.
That wasn’t what I was expecting… The story’s an inverted version of the traditional ‘Three Little Pigs’…
Then… the bonkers Victorian fantasy ‘The Water Babies’ tells me I should believe in fairies:
‘It is a wide world… and plenty of room in it for fairies, without people seeing them; unless of course they look in the right place. The most wonderful and strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things that no one can see…’
Good argument?!
Last night we watched ‘The Pirates of Penzance’. The plot hinges around two farcical misunderstandings…
Frederic should have been an apprentice pilot; instead, he’s an apprentice pirate. He thought he’d finish his apprenticeship when he was 21; instead, he’ll finish on his twenty first birthday. Born on February 29th he’d only had five actual birthdays…
On the news…
…Colin Bell, a 102-year-old War World Two veteran, abseiled 280ft down the seventeen floors of the Royal London hospital, for charity… Unexpected!
…NASA has investigated hundreds of UFO sightings (now called ‘UAP’s – Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). Their conclusion? There’s no proof aliens exist, but they might.
It sounds like Kingsley’s ‘fairy’ argument.
I turned to my Bible this morning for sanity… Acts 5… The enthusiastic disciples, now without Jesus, see the ‘church’ enjoying remarkable growth…
…Annanias and Saphira drop dead for their lies and deception; an eruption of miracles divides public opinion; the apostles are arrested, but released from prison by an angel…
…It fits in with yesterday’s unexpected, unbelievable and bonkers…
Then the wise elder Gamaliel advises them: Human foolishness will fail… don’t judge and take things into your own hands… if God is active, you won’t necessarily perceive what He’s doing…
Through life’s unexpected, unbelievable and just plain bonkers I like Gamaliel’s advice.
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