Sometimes I write just because my blog is sitting looking
empty and I just like to write. It is at
times like that that I will write a poem or just write about the weather. At other times I am feeling passionate about
my subject, usually then I write about the Christian faith. Today I spent the
morning with three friends chilling out looking around an old building near
here. It is called Shute Barton. It wasn’t a hugely grand place but we had a
guided tour which was interesting. The building had belonged to the Carew and
De la Pole family. A brother and sister
from the place travelled to settle in America only a short while after the
Pilgrim Fathers had done the journey.
Obviously very adventurous people. We then went to the local church
where they were serving coffee, tea and cakes.
My friends meet with me regularly for Bible study, but it is good to
spend time in this way. We don’t need to
talk religion because we all know what the other ones believe. It was a good time.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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