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Home for a rest - 23/7/09 |
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It's been a while since I posted anything. I've been on holiday, which was very hot and sunny. On occasions we managed to touch base via the BBC news to find out what was happening back home. I was really saddened that one of the main headlines was from the violence in Northern Ireland during and following one of the marchs. There can be no rational excuse for this, no matter what the past held, that was then and this is now. They have a clear choice live in the here and now and for the future or be destined to live in the bitter pain of the past. But I suppose that an awful lot of people live in just that situation - the past. In the church we continually hear, we've always done it this or that way. This our tradition. The problem is that if the tradition is wrong then the outcome will will be just that too. Any and all traditions were new at some time, there was a first time for everything and I live in hope there will be a first time for real peace in Ireland and a forward looking attitude in the church. Though in truth peace in Ireland is a more realistic hope.
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