Today is the feast day of St Joseph, the foster-father of Jesus. He is the patron saint of workers and a model for all fathers throughout the world. And this despite the fact we know not a word he said, little of his daily life, nor even when he died. We do know that when he died, before the public life of Jesus began, that the Mother of God, and the Son of God were at his side.
Today was one of those grey, wet cold days, disappointing after such a glorious weekend. But this is Scotland after all.
School was busy as usual, lots of things going on. There were interviews today for the 2 Principal Teacher posts in our school. We will know tomorrow who the successful candidates are.
Today saw the grotesque attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, with the cold blooded murder of a man and two young children. Police know that it was the same man who killed 3 soldiers last week. God save us from violent fanatics and zealots!
The world is in a downward plunge to chaos and disorder. Liberalism is the cry. Let all do what they want, whenever they want and with whoever they so choose. And the taxpayer will foot the bill.
All sense of Christian morality is to be swept away. All signs of Christianity are to be hiddden. People will be forced to do things which are against their conscience in the pursuit of "equality"
And why? we are not all equal, and nothing Governments or human rights activists do can make us equal. God made us Man and Woman. God gave us different skills, abilities, talents, looks an so on.
If I ask my class to have a race across the playground, they will not all reach the other side at the same time, unless I ask the fastest to delay their start, or not allow them to run to their ability.
If I do a maths test with my class, not everyone will score the same mark, unless I manipulate the test or handicap the brightest children.
And that is life. This is God's plan. That we co-operate with each other for the benefit of all.That the strong help the weak. That those with plenty give to those in need.
It has always been so. Communism tried to make all equal by punishing the haves. Look at the results in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba,North Korea and so on. Massive deaths through starvation, massive deprivation, peoples cowed and terrified.
Look at the Roman Empire, once all glorious , all powerful. Destroyed by corruption and moral collapse in public and private lives.
That is where we are headed now.
Here in the UK, our Prime Minister came to power with promises of freeing us from the excesses of the EU, and tax breaks for married couples with families. They were empty promises. Instead we have tax breaks for co-habiting couples and same sex couples, and single parents. The latest, that where one of the partners in a same sex relationship has a title, the partner will now be entitled to one too. What title will, let's say, Sir Elton John's partner be given?
And in America, the President, whose first rulings were lift the ban on embryo experimentation, is now obliging all employers to supply, free to workers ,contraceptive and abortion treatments.
Enough said? Who else is worried about the future?
