Friday, 1 July 2005
Irregularity
I apologise to those of you who complain about the infrequency of recent posts. It is fortuitous in a way, as the next two weeks will be even more erratic!!!
I will try and make what posts I can, while I am away for a couple of weeks holiday.
In the meantime, I look at the house over the road. An archaeological find of the last two months, and I imagine it will be very different when I return. The little old lady died, her nephew sold the house, the local heritage builder pulled fown the front fence, they removed the ivy growing over the house, chipped away the plaster facade....and found the sign "Boot and Shoe shop!"
People had forgotten it was there, though photos existed in local histories but no one could remember just where it was.
Well, parishioner Joan S could because they had lived in the house just after the War when first married.
Now the builder has chipped and chivied, gutted and paved, even resprayed tan bricks to look red! And it will be looking fabulous and unrecognisable when we return in two weeks.
In the way of these things, I imagine it was bought for a song...another song has been spent renovating it, and it will be sold for four songs and a half in 12 months time. The way of the world.
I will try and post a photo for tomorrow.
Cya soon.
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In the meantime, the fate of another much loved red brick building just down the road on the other side
hangs in the balance. If it should go the way the church people seem to want it to go, what songs will be sung when they really begin to count the cost? (Luke 14: 28-30) Is this the way of The Church? But then, who is willing to think seriously about the bigger picture at this time?
I am willing to think about the bigger picture, and see our attempt to grapple with under and little used resources as being just one aspect of that.
I am also experienced enough to know that my lone view of the bigger picture is usually limited. Which is one reason why I struggle with corporate decision making.
And in the end it is corporate decision making not my individual, or your individual will that should prevail.
Are you then willing to allow others with differing perceptions of the situation equal opportunity to put their concerns to the people of the Parish - and to seriously consider and allow those perceptions to be seriously considered?
I think you have had plenty of opportunity to do that. Whether or not your arguments will be heard will have to remain to be seen.
But you get plenty of opportunity. And take, and have taken serious liberties with that freedom. The fact that people are not necessarily convinced does not mean that you haven't had opportunity to put your argument.
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