Just been on a pleasant 2 hour walk around the village. Interesting to see the local pub and wine bar with blackout blinds fitted but all of the lights on (through gaps at the edge). Makes you wonder….
Yesterday I had almost no work to do. This is becoming the norm – it all arrives on Tuesday. I am assuming that people are changing their working hours when working from home and extending their weekends. Same thing on Fridays. Whatever the reason it means I need to change how I behave – I have more me time on two more days of the week. Sadly the weather has not been so good, so it is hard to get out.
Watching the US election is interesting. Last time round there was a lot about the economy – you know – the idea that electing Trump the business mogul would solve things – balance the books. This time round I have heard very little, other than a few digs at tax rises. But the US debt is now $25,000 larger per person (man, woman and child) than it was when Trump was elected. The debt is now thought to be larger than the US economy. Don’t get me wrong – I few presidents have managed to balance the books (other than Bill Clinton) in recent years. I’m just fascinated at how the economy is no longer a battle ground of importance.
Here I see people clamouring for local control for the pandemic response but central government response to free school meals. How fickle we are.
A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it!
It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.
This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can’t tame a tongue—it’s never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth!
My friends, this can’t go on. A spring doesn’t gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don’t bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don’t bear apples, do they? You’re not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you?