BBC Radio Leicester
Thought for the Day
© John Denney 18
April 2005
I’d like to make this perfectly clear. In Real Terms, the policies of the other parties
have a Black Hole in them, because they’re Top Down, while we’re Bottom
Up – and Fully Costed. On the Doorstep,
Hard Working Families in Middle England tell us that their sums Just Don’t Add Up. The Forgotten
Majority want more Matrons to sort
out the Chaos caused by the Metropolitan Elite. At The End of the
Day, Real People don’t live in the Westminster Village.
I
guess we’re going to hear more and more of these political clichés for the next
17 days as the battle between the parties hots up and we choose who is to
represent us in Councils and in Parliament, and who will form the new
government.
It’s
a far cry from the Vatican, where a very different election process is getting
underway at this moment. There, the
hundred and fifteen Cardinal electors of the Roman Church are going to be
locked away in secrecy until they come up with their choice of a new Pope. There are no manifestos, no declaration of
candidates, no Party Political Broadcasts, no babies to be kissed. Just silence until the result is announced. (À la Homer Simpson)
Mmmmm, silence.
Yesterday
was the start of the new-style Pop Charts.
The music-loving public has voted with its wallets – or more exactly,
its credit cards – and now the charts include cyberspace downloads. Fewer and fewer people buy records, and more
and more download music from the Internet onto their MP3 players. It’s a
bit hi-tech for me, but if President Bush can master the technology, then I
ought to be able to!
Life
is full of choices. Not just elections;
not just how you buy your music.
Everything in life involves choices.
And it’s not always easy to know what to do. Many Christians find that praying about a
problem – however big, however small – helps.
God advises his children, in the same way as human parents advise their
children. The prayer that Jesus taught
us starts by us addressing God as Our Father in
heaven[1]. Praying is a relationship thing, a
conversation between Father God and us.
The apostle James told us: You do not have
because you do not ask God[2]. Maybe we should all ask God about who should
get our vote, and get the right government.