A comment on (some) modern women...

Sonnet #20

The painted ones, I see them every day,
And cringe inside, thinking of their antics.
Yesterday's women have been swept away,
No more hope now for all us romantics.
Now they dance on tables and eat red meat;
Of the sensible gender they'll not hear.
Now all of our kind are in full retreat,
Transfigured into quivering bundles of fear.
Surely they themselves don't enjoy this fight;
It's usually their own wounds that fester.
What princess can be espied by her knight
When she only behaves like the jester.
Today's women have forgotten what's best;
To be loved and adored, it beats all the rest.

Tuesday 25 May, 2004

(disclaimer: these comments are not supposed
to demonstrate that I know *anything*, at all,
about women. They are observations, rather
than conclusions!)

Stone Statue in the glade

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We found this relic somewhere in Shropshire on the recent CiCCU houseparty. Obviously the character upon whom the statue is modelled belonged to a very primitive tribe...

Sonnet #23

When was ever such a love story told
Than in the pages of Your hallowed book?
What adventures in those pages unfold
When the prince a great rescue undertook.
When the captors e’er so undeserving;
Their spite for the king quite so undisguised?
How strange for the prince now to be serving
His own subjects; belief, truly this belies.
But hush now as on a tree he is hung:
“Father forgive...” he cries; now for all to see
The plan not even to spare His own Son
Whom he sent down to die to set us free.
        We exhort you: heed the good news we bring
        Will you turn from your path and follow the King?

Saturday 22 January 2005

Read and lament... then choose

"The form of modern democracy is best explained as the paradoxical absorption into practice of the fiercest criticisms of democracy from those opposed to it." Simon Goldhill

The above statement from a excellent classics textbook on the ancient Greeks is, I believe, the exact representation of at least British society today. Surely this leaves us with no hope...? If even democracy these days is only an illusion then surely we are just waiting for this illusion to collapse, like the Matrix, leaving us in the cruel, cold world that is humanity, without hope, the last thing to die.

Well, if what we can see is all there is, then truly we are without hope. Jesus Christ invites each and every person, however, to 'listen' to what He has to tell them about the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the gospel that those Christians are always talking about (or should be). That Christ died in the place of sinners in order to bring us into the Kingdom of His Father, the Kingdom of Heaven. This is what we cannot see, yet know exists because it has been revealed to us by God Himself.

IF THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS REAL, THEN THERE ARE ONLY TWO POSSIBLE COURSES FOR US TO FOLLOW IN ETERNITY! Don't you think, you should at least find out what they are. Every human has volition (the ability to choose) and so, we should probably be a bit better informed before we make the only choice that will affect where we spend eternity. Click on the below link to find out.

Two ways to live: The Choice We All Face