Povey Prattle

via P.W. and M.D.

From the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Holy Week and Easter 2016 "Some years ago in the last century George McLeod , the founder of the Iona Community , had fought in the First World War, a war that he came to realize was fought for no good reason.  He eventually became ordained, and founded the Iona Community, and at one point he said this about this faith that we hold as followers of Jesus: "I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the centre of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church.  I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves, on the town garbage dump, at a crossroads so cosmopolitan that they had to write his title in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.  It was the kind of place where cynics talk smut, thieves curse, soldiers gamble.  That’s where he died.  And that’s where we as Christians ought to be and what we as Christians ought to be about."

Penne and I adopted each other on March 24th 2009. Today is our seventh anniversary. We couldn't be happier.

I set out in good time this morning, bound for St. Boniface Church, Siesta Key, and the Tuesday morning Communion service and bible study. Life intervened.  The Fruitville Rd/Beneva Ave area was choc-a-bloc with traffic.  Snails were moving faster than vehicles. I tried the short cut through the K-Mart parking lot on Beneva in order to get to Fruitville,  Fruitville was closed.  So I wiggled back to Beneva through the McDonalds lot, and drove north to 12th Street.  I was filled with traffic as far as the eye could see, Another wiggle, this time through the Faith Presbyterian Church lot, and then after a naughty U turn went up to 17th Street.  Guess what?  Yep, it was all but impassable. After thirty minutes worth of "try, try, and try again", never having gotten as much as a mile away from my home, I QUIT. Here's the reason for the chaos. http://G52-SHweb.newscyclecloud.com/article/2016160329917   -------------------------------------------------------------

A panelist was talking about the reluctance of some Presidential hopefuls to be specific on details of foreign policy, lest they be held accountable for these details if elected. She said that   they/he   would not want to ... "Box himself in a corner". ================================================================