the good person

I remember, as a teenager, reading Bertolt Brecht's "the Good Person of Szechwan" (although I remember  her as the Good Woman of Setzuan) / what struck me then (and seems still to apply to-day) / was how the heroine found it impossible to maintain the good side of her nature, and had to call upon a more ruthless alter ego in order to survive / it's all very well / being told to trust God / to put the Kingdom first / but for most of us there has to be some compromise / in order to live / to be effective citizens / we have to spend some of our lives putting our employer first / doing what the world requires / expects ...

recognising that even within ourselves / there's stuff we want to do / to prioritise / which doesn't come straight from the Bible ...

place in the kingdom

a bit of a grand title / trying to address a (not particularly) simple choice / which church do I attend?

when one's wife has decided to start attending a different church / should one follow her / if one's daughter still attends the place where we (all) used to go / except that one's son hasn't attended church in years ...

the world (in this country) has changed / many people do other things on a Sunday morning / they even wash their cars (for some reason, an early memory of mine is of our minister berating his congregation / how awful, that people would spend Sunday morning washing their cars, instead of coming to church / his audience, presumably, agreeing with him) / it is more difficult, nowadays / pressure of time / both parents working / the case for spending Sunday morning worshipping God / is no longer self evident ...

and if the churches are competing / not easy for an individual ...

would it help

if I started attending a different church ...